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A Birthday - by Edwin Muir

{ Poem }

I never felt so much
/ Since I have felt at all
/ The tingling smell and touch
/ Of dogrose and sweet briar,
/ Nettles against the…

On Hearing for the First Time - by Carole Bromley

{ Poem }

‘It sounds very very high’
/
/ and she sobs for the joy of it,
/ for the reds and blues of it,
/ the shock, the…

Text - by Imtiaz Dharker

{ Poem }

I am sending a message again.
/ Maybe you can’t hear it
/ through all the noise of lights
/ and the dangerous way things…

Mosi-oa-Tunya - by Eveline Pye

{ Poem }

The last place for a waterfall, no mountains or valleys,
/ horizons flat as summer seas, then from thirty miles,
/ a white tower…

Soondscapes - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

I da dizzied hoose, a strum of flechs baet
/ endless drums fornenst a frenzied window.
/ Belligerent, dey want nedder in nor oot.
/
/ Apö…

Baby Hand - by Gillian K. Ferguson

{ Poem }

Not bones but muscular air
/ inside; why starfish spread
/ five doll small living fingers
/ with cushion button dimples
/ for knuckles. All of…

The Larder - by Vicki Feaver

{ Poem }

Turned seventy, and not wanting
/ to waste the years left, half-asleep,
/ I’m stocking the shelves of a larder.
/
/ Each day is an empty…

When We Were Gymnasts - by Emily Ballou

{ Poem }

Remember when you turned cartwheels / in the schoolyard. / And danced down the length / of the fallen tree,…

The God of Sugar (Sugar Shed, Greenock) - by Vicki Feaver

{ Poem }

Cavernous – and empty now – / no shouts of dockers, / no barefoot women shovelling / molasses – it…

The slight hearing loss - by Hamish Whyte

{ Poem }

The slight hearing loss / we each suffer from / means we sometimes / fail to catch the sense /…

Music, When Soft Voices Die - by Percy Bysshe Shelley

{ Poem }

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
/ Are heap’d for the belovèd’s bed;
/ And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
/ Love itself…

I Follow Her - by Emelihter Kihleng

{ Poem }

we have to go call a taxi
/ the light by the store isn’t working
/ the night is black
/ the moon is dark tonight
/ I…

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