epub |eng | 2022-12-15 | Author:Clare Shaw

Love was clear as a dream and you were in it. Silence and sunlight. Love had god on its side and no one could save you from it. It was ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-06 | Author:John Boyes

Daffodils I wander’d lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Carolyn Jess-Cooke [Jess-Cooke, Carolyn]

at which my other ‘homes’ can stay? As a first time buyer, I must navigate the well-chartered territories of mortgage percentages instead of map coordinates, I must commit to a ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:P. J. Kavanagh [P. J. Kavanagh]

Today I thought it time to write this down, Beyond decoration, humble, in plain rhyme, As clear as I could, and as truthful, which I have done. The Moon in ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-22 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

If the home we never write to, and the oaths we never keep, And all we know most distant and most dear, Across the snoring barrack-room return to break our ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-15 | Author:Jacob Sam-La Rose [Jacob Sam-La Rose]

Turning Darker Still I stumbled about, dazed, the music beating hysterically in my ears. It was dark. RALPH ELLISON, The Invisible Man There’s rider in a desert, seeking water. He ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Dermot Healy [Dermot Healy]

with such tenderness and care as she combed back in the curls you’d combed away. I have been to that place I set my mind upon, and would climb it ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Stephen Romer [Stephen Romer]

An Epitaph upon a child Virgins promis’d when I dy’d, That they wo’d each Primrose-tide, Duely, Morne and Ev’ning, come, And with flowers dresse my Tomb. Having promis’d, pay your ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Jackie Kay [Jackie Kay]

Teeth (i.m. Joy Gardner) This is X who has all her own teeth. Her mother is horrified by this. Look into her mouth. She still has them. Perfect pearls. Milk ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Liz Lochhead [Liz Lochhead]

II: Beauty & the Beast he was hot he grew horns he had you screaming mammy daddy screaming blue murder. From one sleepy thought of how like a mane his ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Mimi Khalvati [Mimi Khalvati]

Overblown Roses She held one up, twirling it in her hand as if to show me how the world began and ended in perfection. I was stunned. How could she ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Kelly Grovier [KELLY GROVIER]

on the gritted weave. So we gathered in smocks and goggles; a laboratory lined with beakers: spirits summoned to conjure the master’s vanishing hand. And of the alchemy itself? No ...

epub |eng | | Author:Anthony Anaxagorou [Anaxagorou, Anthony]

Sublimation beyond the first door she lays looped around two beams of light, beneath the city cork-bones rattle the troubled after dark he paces the road, rewiring half of each ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Fleur Adcock [Fleur Adcock]

Dreaming it: the braids of upside-down-looking words trailing through his sleep, tripping him up or winding themselves into suddenly obvious patterns: truth leaping out; no room for argument. But arguing ...

epub |eng | 2018-10-14 | Author:Gillian Allnutt [Gillian Allnutt]

Where the moon was, exactly. Now there are only the printed instructions on packets to make out, patiently. Let us be quiet, once more, like the sea. The accumulated incidental ...