A winner of the Members' Poems competition in the spring 2022 issue of Poetry News. The competition, on the theme of 'Solastalgia', was judged by Sheri Benning.
There are no workers
honing down,
no hands swinging
the scythe, no sea birds
weaviling the flail
in the tractor’s wake;
yet still I feel them
homing in the dusk
their tools hung to rest,
brass and dust,
a century’s windlass
circuiting the pores
of old saddles
wrinkled leathers breathing
horse dung and sweat.
I drink the stars
in the water’s face
hold in my mouth
the small legends,
my tongue ploughing
the sky’s ruck and fold,
the nudged summits
of a trough’s granite
where a universe
has drowned.
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'Gathered Notes' is the book of the ongoing Dovetailing project with beautiful images, work from a range of poets including those on my workshop for refugees at Ilkley, er mine, and prose reflections including from @TommyShakes pic.twitter.com/0sfC5EYcng
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Kendal Poetry Festival is coming up in June! For a preview of what’s coming up listen in with the festival director @kimmoorepoet and poet @halekatie to this this week’s Cumbrian Arts Zoom twitter.com/arts_cumbria/s…
Plse RT Join this week's Friday zoom to take the temp of all things Cumbrian poetry! We'll preview fantastic @KendalPoetry with @kimmoorepoet & @halekatie then go round county with Hannah Catterall at @WordsworthGras, Kelly Davis & Phil Hewitson. Sign up: https://t.co/PCAhRAdt4b pic.twitter.com/JLMDy78XPc
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Liverpool! Our dear friend Joelle Taylor is performing this Friday 27th at @DistrictLpool . She is a wonder of the poetry firmament!! So don’t squander this opportunity to be moved, stirred and dedazzled by @JTaylorTrash twitter.com/wowfest/status…
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Friday 27th!
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