Poems
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Roman Other Worlds
Roman Other Worlds (Bruno, Trier poems below) In 1974 I hitch-hiked with a friend from England through the then Yugoslavia…
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Inyanga
Inyanga Zimbabwe, January, 1990 an extract Something is banging. The firelight shudders, crashes the walls to the sound…
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Becalmed, Bantry Bay
Becalmed, Bantry Bay I scatter poetry into landscape rooted in song and myth, find the tiger exhausted, sheep shivering on…
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Mangrove roots, Nambucca River
Mangrove roots, Nambucca River Seeds take root, their green shells dislocate in sections, leaves unfold, arch and expand precarious tidelines,…
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Organisation, Moscow
. . . stamp of columns fresh from the Caucasus yelling guttural noise from the Red Army songbook, a terrible…
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Driving to the Island (Toraigh Island)
Tory or Toreigh island is off the north coast of Donegal
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Sainsbury’s Belgian Fairtrade Milk Chocolate
A visit to friends living in bush outside Bellingen
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Real Love – extract
An extract - from the 2010 Newcastle Poetry prize anthology. The poem is about death but I'd term it as…
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Sunday afternoon (with translation notes)
A poem about the Fukushima disaster - with notes for translators
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Invitation to Jagun
for Alice Oswald You could walk out of our house straight into Jagun spread a dizzy balance on our old…
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