FootSteps Press started as a poetry publisher having inherited the work of Shänne Sands who was described as 'the link between the Romantic and the Moderns'.

5 selections each 42 pages.

A spectacular edition is on its way in 2027 from Charles Thompson

If You Are A Child These Are For You is planned for 2027

THE HISTORY OF THE NATION

Is NOT peaceful integration,

But an accurate account of brutal force.

How it overwhelms the Meek,

As the Roman screwed the Greek,

And Everyone got rogered by the Norse.

Picture; you’re indigenous, you farm your fen… Uliginous,

Odiferous and sodden though it be,

You are distant from the lairs

Of those scary wolves and bears

In the Forest. SO much safer by the sea…

But Look, my Child! A whale? No, a pretty, stripy sail!

Then another… And the dragon-headed ships

Of the Hornéd-Helmet Hordes

With their axes and their swords

Howl in. And little chap, you’ve had your chips.

Careless love

I threw my heart to the wind -

Catch it, catch it, I cried -

The wind replied, replied -

Your heart is mine, is mine -

Torrents of rain fell down

The skies became deep black;

I called to the wind for my heart -

Give it back, give it back.

And the thunder cracked -

I threw my soul to the skies

To search for my absent heart

Now soul and heart depart -

And I feel wise, feel wise -

Without heart to ache for love;

Without soul to yearn for truth

Blown with the wind in the skies

Blown with my youth, my youth -

Reviews

Fidelity os For Swans

Midwest Book Review, Oregan Bookwatch May 2012:

"We collect our thoughts, and it may be some time before we let it all be known. "Fidelity is for Swans" is a memoir from Shanne Sands as she puts forth her experience in other forms of writing to create a more comprehensive work of poetry. A strong addition to any literary poetry collection, "Fidelity is for Swans" is a fine and much recommended pick." John Taylor

Love, Death and Bad Behaviour
Lee C

Jonathon Coudrille's style is unique and he uses the full range of the English language introducing words the Bard himself may have had to seek out in a dictionary. The author uses our language in all its richness and colour to pull every emotional string. "I'm Hungry!", cried Adam, is a parody of the biblical story of the Garden of Eden while The Damnation Files enable us to laugh at the professions most commonly the butt of jokes, from accountants and architects to journalists and lawyers. I had to wipe away a tear when I read "My mother loved my father", as there was so much in there with which I could identify. Something, I guess, about parents who grew up twixt the Great Wars that we rarely see today.

Illustrated by the author himself, each image well worth the price of the whole book, and with introductory prefaces to the various sections, this is a book I shall treasure, along with Jonathon Coudrille's other works.