Vivienne Tregenza
Writer and Poet
I have been a student, linguist, teacher, horticultural support worker (Special Needs), allotment keeper…..
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and am now a wife, mum, mental health activist, landlady, artist, Quaker, and last but not least …..a writer. A poet.
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If you have happened upon my website, I hope you will enjoy looking around and consider buying my first collection of poems published by Indigo Dreams Publishing on 22nd September 2025.​​
'Conversations with Magic Stones’ was written in response to the sculptures of Barbara Hepworth during the summer of 2023…. It turned into a book about life, loss and transformation. It became a book about Love.
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It’s set in West Cornwall where I live and on the Isles of Scilly where I lived for a while.
Poetry
Conversations with Magic Stones
Conversations with Magic Stones commemorates the life and work of Barbara Hepworth, fifty years after her death in a fire at her home in St Ives, Cornwall.
It goes on to explore the Hepworth themes of figures in the landscape, loss, resilience and transformation, moving from the poet's home in West Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly and back again.
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Vivienne Tregenza won the Formal Poetry Prize at Poetry on the Lake, Orta, Italy and has been placed or shortlisted in competitions including the Bridport, Frogmore, Hippocrates, Second Light, Ver Poets and Welsh Poetry Prizes. In 2024 she was shortlisted for the Cinnamon Press 'New Voices' Award and also highly commended in the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize. Vivienne is well-published in UK journals.
If you wish to buy a copy of 'Conversations with Magic Stones' click on the button below which will take you to my publisher 'Indigo Dreams Publishing'
'A sunlit, scrubbed and chiselled conversation between a poet and a sculptor, between now and then, linked by motherhood and love.'
Maitreyabandhu
(author of After Cezanne)
Endorsements
'Part celebration of Barbara Hepworth's hard-fought achievements as a women artist, part exploration of the inward creative life itself, these shining, beautiful poems meditate on love, mothering, attachment and solitude set within their shared Cornish landscape, 'granite-strong, wind-strung.'
Pippa Little
'Starting with a celebration of Hepworth, the way her sculptures counterpoint space and substance, the way 'nothing gives way to everything', these crafted lyrical poems go on to honour a similar poetic structure echoed in the landscape of Vivienne Tregenza's beloved Cornwall. Ultimately, like Hepworth's art, these poems open to what lies beyond: their lasting impression is of light - much light - and epiphany.'
Rosie Jackson
Upcoming Events
There will be a number of upcoming events
to which you are very welcome.
Monday 22nd September 2025
Poetry in the Garden:
'Conversations with Magic Stones' a Poetry Reading
in the garden of Tremorran and the Angel Gallery, Botallack, St Just, TR19 7QJ
(or if wet indoors)
2.30pm - 4.00pm
PLEASE BOOK IN ADVANCE BY CONTACTING ANNIE HENRY
missanniehenry@hotmail.com or 07768 166309
Thursday 2nd October 2025
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On NATIONAL POETRY DAY the launch of
Conversations with Magic Stones
at The Edge of the World Book Shop,
25 Market Jew Street, Penzance,
7.30pm - 9.00pm
FREE EVENT
Sunday 19th October 2025
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Light and Epiphany in Conversations with Magic Stones: Poetry in memory Barbara Hepworth with Vivienne Tregenza
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Poetry Reading at Marazion Quaker Meeting House followed by a shared lunch.
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Meeting is at 10.30
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Poetry Reading is at 12 noon