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Threshold - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

Our strength is our difference. / Dinny fear it. Dinny caw canny. …

One Year the Door Will Open - by Ryan Van Winkle

{ Poem }

Door, I have knocked, pushed,
/ licked and, for a year, stroked
/ your veins smooth as varnish.
/ My knuckles are hard, black beetles.
/ We…

I have lost my bearings - by Anna Crowe

{ Poem }

It is time to go north. I want / to listen to silence and unpick its voices: / the wind…

Open the Door - by William Soutar

{ Poem }

Open the door for the auld year
/ It is the pairtin-time:
/ Open the door for the new year
/ And lat the bairn win…

The Door - by Miroslav Holub

{ Poem }

Go and open the door.
/ Maybe outside there’s
/ …

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