During July, we received a staggering 126 poems in aid of Down Syndrome Scotland as part of the Isobel Slorach Poetry Award. Poems were received as far north as the Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands to the most southerly ports of England, aged from 12yrs old to comfortably retired, and demonstrated a countrywide adoration […]
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Flair 1 The frescoes of springScatter their radianceAnd spill a festival of pinkPetals on the mottled green 2 Your tongueA wet stem of languageUnfurlsIn my mouthO the fizzAnd frothOf brilliantCherryBlossomO the thrilling stippleOf Pinks A searOfRouge weatherPuckersThe streetsLeafy frontageAnd shadowOrchardsRipenIn theBlurOf VoluptuousStreets 3 It is not the bush burning With imperishable fireThat I search for,
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In Praise of a Woman An old uncoupled crow flies lowacross the tarmac, where Lucy runsto blue double doors with friends.My hand still longing for her handin mine at the school’s iron gates.And there’s no looking back, as ifshe fears turning into a pillar of salt.Does she know Lot’s wife’s story? A friend whispers in
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Does My Father Cry? Does my father cryin the deep night,when the house is silentand he stretches out in bed,unsure if the creakingcomes from the mattressor from himself? Does he cryleaning on the railingas the sky breaks awake,the light spilling into the street,and he’s still so tired? Does my father crywith the slow coming sunrise,as
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Days of Wine and Roses Late summer listening to jazz; the windows,open, tempt in a piece of the night,a coptering whir, burr of dusty wings,a flick-book rainbow, all the colours of music; but stopped, hid in some unlit niche. Next morning, moving chairs, there’sa dull dart beneath the sill. Don’t tryto pare apart the rigid
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Lisa Pike Night numbers, New Orleans, the occult, the spectre of Catholicism: all come together in “Arithmancy”, one of the final poems of the well-known Canadian poet and writer Len Gasparini. Composed sometime in 2021, “Arithmancy” is the title poem for what would have been his next collection. Arithmancy Arithmancy – an uncannily fancydivination by
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Imanol Gómez Martín A poet and critic (with books on Sylvia Plath, Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson) as well as a painter, Marnie Pomeroy was born in the countryside near Millbrook, New York, in 1932, and has lived for more than 50 years in Canada. It may be paradoxical to begin an article on her
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The Carousel Jardin du Luxembourg A roof, a shadow, round and round it spinsfor a little while, this brightly coloured bandof horses from a hesitating landthat’s going, gone. Some do have more than reins,a cart or carriage, but they manage to presentbrave faces, as they must, while at their sidea furious crimson lion keeps its
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Digging a Cesspit After a week the Elsan was at high tide,thick bluish fluid lapping with foul flotsam.My sister’s new boyfriend arrived on cue.Dad marked out a square metre, the bladeof the trenching spade knifing throughlank grass, handed the spade to the youthand said he would fetch the pickaxe:there were bound to be rocks. In
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