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submit/contact – The Poetry Shed
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Send submissions, questions or comments via this email address : thepoetryshed@hotmail.com. Have you written a review of a poetry collection or pamphlet? Fancy submitting it here? Please send as an email attachment to the address above. Call for poems on any theme – closing date 25 August 2016. Call for poems on the theme of bullying for National Anti-Bullying Week 16th-20th Nov 2015. ‘Make a no! Se about bullying is now closed. Call for poems on the theme of World Suicide Prevention Day. Oh yes, Ingot t...
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my poems – The Poetry Shed
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Before you write-off your imaginary sister. Remember how she didn’t take her blunt playschool scissors. To your Tiny Tears doll, didn’t lop off a curl,. How it didn’t make you cry for three nights in a row,. Your only consolation, not inviting a mantra to your lips:. You are not my sister, you are not my sister. Think of that night she wasn’t at the tap-end. Of the bath, not blowing bubbles through her fingers,. Not sloshing them over your face, how the water didn’t slop. Winner of the Cinnamon Prize 2013.
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With You in Mind – The Poetry Shed
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With You in Mind. April 28, 2015. May 11 – 17 poet and editor Sarah James will be running the ‘With You In Mind’ online project in support of Mental Health Awareness Week 2015, culminating in an online anthology. Sarah will be giving her blog at http:/ www.sarah-james.co.uk/. A guide to mental health problems, topical issues and treatment options may be found on the Mental Health Foundation’s http:/ www.mentalhealth.org.uk/help-information/mental-health-a-z/ Mental. Mayfield Fringe Festival Poetry Reading.
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Roy Marshall’s spring – The Poetry Shed
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Roy Marshall’s spring. April 10, 2015. April 10, 2015. A perfect diversion, to leave the lane and step. Under this canopy, to follow the stream. And find bluebells, scroll-headed ferns,. Yellow primrose at the mossy roots of trees;. Then a sudden stench, and here, a Fox,. Some days dead, coat slackened, eye sockets. Picked clean; death has come to steal a breath. From the mouth of spring. I tread carefully over tarmac and grass,. Cup treasure in my palms, leave. She stands in the doorway, hand on hip,.
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The Poetry Shed – Page 2
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July 9, 2016. July 9, 2016. Gibbous moon, shape of my pre-menstrual belly,. All bloated flesh and tenderness;. Fat swelling surrounded by stars. Gibbous moon, unfathomable globe. Like my post-menstrual belly;. Rathe, expectant, not-quite fecund. Gibbous tender, fretful, pendulous phase. Waxing, waning, I forget. Mother’s Milk Books. MYTH AS SOURCE IN IRISH POETRY: BY MARIA ISAKOVA BENNETT. July 6, 2016. MYTH AS SOURCE IN IRISH POETRY: BY MARIA ISAKOVA BENNETT. First Published in Orbis 169. The basic stru...
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Anne Stewart: Featured Poet – The Poetry Shed
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Anne Stewart: Featured Poet. September 17, 2011. I’ll take you to an island, any. Greek island town with winding. Uphill paths, and as we reach. The highest, steepest bend,. Steady yourself. Catch your breath. And turn, be careful of your footing, the stones. Are loosening in the crumbling earth,. And there it is:. The line of trees,. The simple line of trees. I want to show you. So small, so far, you hardly know. What shape they are, though these nearby. Amongst those terraces perhaps you recognise.
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Ben Parker’s spring – The Poetry Shed
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Ben Parker’s spring. April 23, 2015. Outside, the spring is under way,. That centre-stage fluent trajectory. And curtain raise. It fills windows. Everywhere and most particularly. The one behind which I stand. To observe the final claim. Of winter on the land: the stone. That holds within its mineral shell. The remnant cold collected. From the last snow that fell. Before warmth returned and forced. The chill to take its refuge like a bird. In hibernation, weathering. As occupant of this overlooking room.
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Jo Bell on her new collection – The Poetry Shed
https://abegailmorley.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/jo-bell-on-her-new-collection
Jo Bell on her new collection. May 13, 2015. How did you feel when you were waiting to hear about your submission? I’m blessed with a very casual attitude to rejection letters. One major publisher turned the book down very graciously and for good reasons and if Jane Commane of Nine Arches hadn’t liked Kith, I would have reassessed it and thought about what to do next. But I had faith in the book, a decent pedigree of prize winning and publication, and a strong sense of the book’s identity. What was it li...
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David Cooke reviews Noonan’s The Fado House – The Poetry Shed
https://abegailmorley.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/david-cooke-reviews-noonans-the-fado-house
David Cooke reviews Noonan’s The Fado House. May 3, 2015. I recently posted a couple of spring poems by Mary Noonan and in a conversation with David Cooke about her collection discovered he is a fan of her work. He kindly sent his review (previously published in Agenda. To snuggle up against the compost in The Poetry Shed. It was his dream to see me through a screen. With words and music and a cast of dwarves. Playing card-sharps, hecklers, fire-eaters. My only act was to jabber, but I could work it up.
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