MIXING her poems with the mushy peas, Worcester’s chip shop poet Stella Loizou has published her second book.

The 27-year-old, who works part-time at her uncle Tony Porphiriou’s Ambleside Chippy in Warndon, often scribbles down ideas under the counter as they come to her between battering the cod and stirring the fryer.

She said: “I just have to write things as they come to me, wherever I might be.”

The new book, titled Salacious, follows on from the success of her 2007 effort Reflections of a Rhymester, the style of which drew comparisons with the work of pop singer Lily Allen.

This time the publicity machine, which describes Stella as “a sexual woman”, is making more of a connection with 1930s Hollywood bombshell Mae West.

“I’m not sure about that,” she said, “but all my poems are based on real-life feelings.

“That’s why they probably come in a rush. When I’m feeling something I have to write. I’ve always liked to write, ever since I was a child.

“Even when I was about seven or eight I was the one the family asked if they wanted a few lines for a greetings card or something like that. It just came naturally.”

Stella was brought up as the only daughter in a traditional Greek Cypriot family, which ran along more rigid lines than those of her English schoolfriends.

However, her free spirit won the day and eventually she enrolled on a performing arts course at Stafford College.

She said: “I hope my poems will appeal to a wide audience because they’re real.

“My work is not sugar coated and it speaks the truth. People aren’t always brave enough to say how they feel, so in some of the book, I am speaking for others. Everyone can relate to something I have written because it’s really all just about life.”

Stella is currently embarking on book signings in London and the Midlands and is hoping to arrange one in Worcester later in the year. Salacious is published by Author House and can be bought online at £19.49 in hardback or £12.99 in paperback.