• The Twain

    The Twain - Poems of Earth and Ether

    Reflective, rhapsodic, comic, tragic, this collection of poems harmonises 

    varied layers of human experience.

  • The Wolf and The Lamb

    The Wolf and The Lamb

    When Mary Cole, a butcher's daughter, caught the eye of Lord Berkeley, it was as flint to tinder. A libertine and a forsworn bachelor, he was taken aback that the Catholic-reared beauty refused to be his mistress. Within weeks he'd brought her family to bankruptcy. When, still, she eluded him, he devised a theatrical plot to abduct her.

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Burns Night Doggerel


'Wee Sleekit Cow'rin Tim'rous Beastie'


Postcard from a Westie to his companion at Boarding School


I'm a Westie from Scotland,

The Isles are m'friends,

But this one's a dot in the ocean,

No survey would map it,

The coastguard would scrap it.

It seems a good time for devotion!


With my dog-collar on

And prayers up to date,

I keep safely short of the brink,

If I put a paw wrong

Or lap sea with m'tongue,

I think I'll end up in the drink!


We're renowned for our tipple

On this part of the globe

It's golden and clear as can be,

Though I've not lost m'bottle,

Send a boat at full throttle,

It's a landlubber's life for me!


It's true my name's Skipper

And the brine's in m'blood,

The forebears sailed full tilt for Skye

To take the Bonnie Prince over,

To 'Jamie the Rover',

When Culloden's dog-fight went awry!


So I think all in all

I'll be glad when you call,

For I'll not make old bones on this rock,

Don't delay at half-term,

Any port in a storm,

But I'd like to be home with m'pack!


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Biography


Rosy Cole was born and educated in the Shires of England. She has been a professional writer for thirty years and has worked as a Press Officer and Publisher's Reader. She is a member of the Society of Authors, the Historical Novel Society, the Poetry Society and redroom.com

Among widespread interests, she lists history, opera, musicals, the arts, vegetarian cookery, drawing and painting, gemmology and homoeopathy. Theology also is an abiding interest. As a singer, she has performed alongside many renowned musicians in theatres, churches and concert venues throughout England and Italy and, in 1992, was selected to join the BBC Rome Pilgrimage Choir in a series of broadcasts for Pentecost Week which included an occasion inside the Vatican when she was privileged to meet Pope John Paul II. In addition, she has run a music agency specialising in themed 'words-and-music' programmes, bringing her two greatest passions together.

Material for the Berkeley Trilogy has been gathered over a long period and has spookily coincided with Rosy's researches into her own family tree which have revealed several generations of ancestors a stone's throw from Berkeley Castle! No connection has yet been established with the characters in Mary Cole's story, but those forebears would almost certainly have known her.

Rosy's first book of poetry, The Twain, Poems of Earth and Ether, was published in April 2012, National Poetry Month, and another collection is in preparation for 2013. Book Two of The Berkeley Trilogy will also be out in 2013.

Rosy lives in West Sussex with her son, Chris, and her black Springador, Jack, who keeps a firm paw on the work-and-walkies schedule!

Marion Grace is Rosy Cole's pseudonym for her contemporary writing.  More Biography Here