Gaia Holmes
Gaia Holmes is a freelance writer and creative writing tutor who works with schools, universities, libraries and other community groups throughout the West Yorkshire region. She runs ‘Igniting The Spark’, a weekly writing workshop at Dean Clough, Halifax, and is the co-host of ‘MUSE-LI’, an online writing group. She has had three full length poetry collections published by Comma Press: Dr James Graham’s Celestial Bed (2006) Lifting The Piano With One Hand(2013), Where The Road Runs Out (2018) and Tales from the Tachograph, a collaborative work with Winston Plowes (Calder Valley Poetry, 2017). She is currently turning her attention towards writing short stories.
Publications by Gaia Holmes
Dr James Graham's Celestial Bed
Dr James Graham's Celestial Bed marks the arrival of yet another great Yorkshire poet.
Lifting The Piano With One Hand
Yorkshire-born poet Gaia Holmes' much-anticipated second collection.
Where the Road Runs Out
Third collection from acclaimed contemporary female poet Gaia Holmes.
Anthologies featuring Gaia Holmes
The New Abject
A sequel to Comma‘s award-winning horror anthology The New Uncanny. Featuring specially commissioned stories inspired by Julia Kristeva’s theory of the abject.
The Cuckoo Cage
Short stories by British authors inspired by the ‘superheroes’ of British protest history, from Ned Ludd to Captain Swing, and scurge of the Romans, Cassivel-launus, to 90s anti-roads protestor Swampy.
Resist: Stories of Uprising
The follow-up to Comma’s successful Protest: Stories of Resistance anthology, featuring twenty authors, whose stories have been written in collaboration with historians and eye-witnesses from centuries of British protest.
Resist: Stories of Uprising
The paperback edition of our popular anthology exploring 20 key moments of British protest history, from Boudica to Grenfell.