Books

Together We Evolve 

– Debut novel – 

While grieving for her father, Sophia experiences a miscarriage and starts to question the relationships around her. She turns to nature for answers and, in doing so, begins to turn away from the human world.

Buy the novel from Hermitage Press

Grieving with the Animals

As the narrator in Grieving with the Animals, Polly Roberts takes her experience of exploring the natural world as a source of metaphor and imagery for grief and pain at the loss of a beloved person. In this debut poetry collection, she interweaves feelings of personal loss with her love of nature and her distress at the irrevocable ecological losses that the natural world is seeing. Animals, birds and their environment seem to echo and sympathise with human emotion, as the poems trace a path from innocence, through memories of happiness, to tragedy and mourning, arriving at a kind of peace and acceptance at last. 

Buy the collection through Dempsey and Windle

Twelve Stories for Twelve Sections

An anthology of short stories inspired by Cornwall’s landscape commissioned by Cornwall’s Areas of Outstanding National Beauty.

Buy the anthology through Hermitage Press

Morvoren

A poetry anthology created as a collaboration between women poets and sea swimmers, with colour photographs. Based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. 

Buy the anthology through Cornwall Writers Association

Social or Solitary

Social or Solitary is the semi-autobiographical story of a girl who leaves England to travel across North America. She is in search of a lifestyle that upholds itself in the face of current political, societal and environmental struggle. Through her interactions with the various subgroups and landscapes she passes, the narrator meets and observes the unique ways in which people are carving themselves a place in the world today.

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Tommy the Caterpillar

An illustrated children’s book written by Polly Roberts for her niece, Ashleigh, in memory of her dad, Tom Alton. Illustrated by Wendy Stayte. Currently unavailable.