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Epigraph: A shudder in the loins engenders there / The broken wall, the burning roof and tower / And Agamemnon dead. -- W. B. Yeats
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Tomorrow
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"Her skin, soft as old chamois.",
2001
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 46 no. 2001; (p. 74) Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 17) -
Evolution
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"How can I speak of sun and not the shadow",
2007
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Voices from the Meadow 2007; (p. 65)
— Appears in: On the Hay Plain and Other Poems 2007; (p. 18) Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 34) -
Stalking Utopia
i
"braking by the wide verandah a pall",
2008
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 29 2008; Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 11-12) -
The Afterdrought
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"The trees came back and the undergrowth",
2009
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 38 2009; (p. 14-15) Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 27-28) -
Man Falling
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"Man Friday fallen on a lee shore",
2009
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 28 no. 2 2009; (p. 8) Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 15) -
A Christmas Concerto
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"Talking to Paul last evening, forking",
2010
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Holding Patterns : Physics and Engineering Poems 2010; (p. 18-19) Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 32-33) -
Tats
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"Now the rain heavy as a banker",
2010
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 13-14) -
Kindertotenlieder
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"If you sit down by a roadside and listen, somewhere,",
2010
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 16) -
The Women
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"Snow falls on Vladimirskaya, the road of exile",
2010
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 18) -
Dark Matter
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"At the end of the pen there is silence;",
2010
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 19) -
She Said
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"Perhaps, she said, this is the last: the last wing",
2010
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 20) -
Gaza
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"But no, that's not what I meant. And yes, you're right,",
2010
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 21-22) -
Bierkeller 1933
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"We found him in a bierkeller",
2010
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 23) -
Knots
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"The end justifies the means",
2010
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 24) -
On the Beach
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"The tide rises, the tide falls",
2010
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 25) -
Building an Ark
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"The destruction of artwork in Florence",
2010
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 26) Prayers of a Secular World 2015; (p. 93) -
Pilgrim
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"Darkness flickered in the hallway where,",
2010
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 29) -
To Market
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"Where to start: with the cicadas in the gums,",
2010
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 30) -
Afterwards
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"It is finished. The body",
2010
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 31)
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