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100 Poems to Save the Earth
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Hand & Skull
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Conquest
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2012
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Aubade After a French Movie
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The Secret
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2008
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Notes From A Swing State: Writing from Wales and America
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Into Eros
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Lycanthrope
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Heaventree New Poets: v. 1
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Blind Horse Elegy
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Enter the Maesteg 200 Poetry Contest by October 1st
Maesteg Town HallI’m delighted to share some exciting news. As I’ll be judging this year’s Maesteg 200 Poetry Competition, I wanted to pass on the official announcement from the Maesteg Double Centenary Committee. This competition marks the beginning of a various activities to celebrate Maesteg’s double centenary in March 2026. Deadline is October 1st 2025. There is also another competition go
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“Even after she was gone, he passed her place each day:
something white in a high window - not a face,
but the white belly of a pigeon beating its wings
against the pane in the boarded-up house.”
― The Secret
something white in a high window - not a face,
but the white belly of a pigeon beating its wings
against the pane in the boarded-up house.”
― The Secret
“How she realized at last that not even love
could justify this, that no affection could, not ever.
Still, in the glass, she sees her own mouth,
opening and closing and silent as a fish.”
― Conquest
could justify this, that no affection could, not ever.
Still, in the glass, she sees her own mouth,
opening and closing and silent as a fish.”
― Conquest
“So many women come to me saying, “I have lost too,
and this one, and this one”. So many embryos retreat
to flesh: the live cell of the mother. Don’t tell me that it
will happen for me, when the only sure thing is a miracle:
the sperm nuzzling in its nest and the egg that opens, explodes.”
― Conquest
and this one, and this one”. So many embryos retreat
to flesh: the live cell of the mother. Don’t tell me that it
will happen for me, when the only sure thing is a miracle:
the sperm nuzzling in its nest and the egg that opens, explodes.”
― Conquest
“Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives out on the gravel road. I am so distracted that I keep walking towards the bear. I only stop when it rears, stands on hind legs, and stares at me, sensitive nose pressed into the air, weak eyes searching. I have never been this close to a wild bear before, but I am not frightened. There is no menace in its stance; it is not even curious. The bear seems to know who or what I am. The bear is not impressed. ”
― The Painted Drum
― The Painted Drum
“I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.”
― Delta of Venus
― Delta of Venus
“He remembers which sister
I like least and asks
how she is doing.
(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')”
― The Tethers
I like least and asks
how she is doing.
(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')”
― The Tethers
“...It's not that the worm forgives the plough; it gives it no mind. (Pain occurs, in passing.) (lines 37-39 in the poem 'Fantasia on a Theme from IKEA')”
― The Water Table
― The Water Table
“He scraped through the dark sand to the center house, two stories, both pouring bands of light into the fog. There was warmth and gaiety within, through the downstairs window he could see young people gathered around a piano, their singing mocking the forces abroad on this cruel night. She was there, proptected by happiness and song and the good. He was separated from her only by a sand yard and a dark fence, by a lighted window and by her protectors.
He stood there until he was trembling with pity and rage. Then he fled, but his flight was slow as the flight in a dream, impeded by the deep sand and the blurring hands of the fog. He fled from the goodness of that home, and his hatred for Laurel throttled his brain. If she had come back to him, he would not be shut out, an outcast in a strange, cold world. ”
― In a Lonely Place
He stood there until he was trembling with pity and rage. Then he fled, but his flight was slow as the flight in a dream, impeded by the deep sand and the blurring hands of the fog. He fled from the goodness of that home, and his hatred for Laurel throttled his brain. If she had come back to him, he would not be shut out, an outcast in a strange, cold world. ”
― In a Lonely Place
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May 02, 2012 05:51AM
Thanks for adding me, Zoe. I really enjoy keeping up with your own work and what you are raeding.
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I have a giant pile of poetry books in front of me by young (mainly British) poets, which I am reviewing for Agenda. Looking forward to working me way through these!
Thanks so much for adding me as a friend, Zoe. Look forward to getting to know you better through our readings. :)
No not yet. Thanks, I'll add it to my "to read" list!Must add some of my favourite poetry books to my recommendations too!
Have you read Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall? It's great. Phil Fried
