‘Waiting for a Change’ by Sara Butler

I was privileged to attend a beautiful evening of poetry in the city of Wells a few weeks back, namely the launch of Sara Butler’s collection, ‘Waiting for a Change’.

The evening was hosted by Ama Bolton and Morag Kiziewicz, two members of the highly respected Wells Fountain Poets, in which Sara was also a regular participant until ill health stopped her. It was Ama and Mo who gathered together Sara’s poems, arranged them and produced this book.

I have a personal stake in this collection, because Sara was also a valued member of one of The Leaping Word’s poetry groups, and I’ve longed to hold a book of her poems in my hands for years. Now, thanks to Ama and Mo, that dream has come true. This book really is an act of love.

‘Waiting for a Change’ is available from bookshops, or – if you must – Amazon; ISBN 978-1-914398-15-5. Someone called Deborah Harvey has this to say about it:

‘A love for nature infuses these poems, though it’s never romanticised, Sara having both an eye and an ear for the dark and the all-too-human. And there’s always the laughing ‘yes’, and sexiness, and a desire for something better, which is found and made real in these poems.’