Category: Summer 2017 Poetry
Prosbaig
by Anne Frater Telescope English Version It was one thing at Trafalgar for Nelson, deliberately to raise the
Immersion
by Anne Frater Immersion English Version If it had come in a downpour we would have noticed; we would have prepared: oilskin trousers and a
Common Rush
by Anna Crowe Common Rush for Swithun The flowers, by August, brownish withered knots; but something about the way they sprout —
A Shepherd’s Voice
by Anna Crowe A Shepherd’s Voice after 2 pictographic clay tablets from Tell Brak, Syria, c. 4000 BCE The river the clay was
At Hallan Cemetery
by Angus Peter Campbell ( Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul ) At Hallan Cemetery English Version I call by to see my mother and father and they
Alasdair
by Angus Peter Campbell ( Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul ) Alasdair English Version Some things were public. How carefully you thatched,
The Ascension of St Christina the Astonishing
by Andy Jackson The Ascension of St Christina the Astonishing Patron saint of millers Above you all I loved my three–fold God;
In a Green Wood
by Alan Gillis Under cover of the sycamore wood anemone blooms. The sycamore’s seeds, wee samaras, twizzle–twirl through the air. You trace
Tollymore Forest Park
by Alan Gillis Grumbulous midges would hover still in a galaxy of minor rage by the riverside, the river relaxed from a distance but
The Historian
by Douglas Dunn Where Shug MacFarlane burned his midnight oil In that cramped attic room of his, upstairs From where his granny took ten years to