Think of a Thread

ISBN 978-1-909404-58-8. Pamphlet collection 36 pages.

Joint winner in Category A (poets without previous collections) of the Poetry Space Prize 2024. Cover design by Freddie Horton.

This compelling chapbook invites the reader into shimmering patterns of personal, cultural and historical life. Marion Horton’s poetic talent is both instinctively lyrical and formally inventive, wide-ranging in its cultural references and intensely honest in its configuring of profoundly human experiences.

Sarah Law

The poems in Think of a Thread are tender and beautifully observed, varied in presentation and, for those with more historical content, carefully researched. These are poems that reward multiple readings, in which the threads of connection across generations of women — underlined by the subtle use of the lace-making motif — become ever more resonant.

Denni Turp

Sample poem