Find it at Cheltenham Poetry Festival:https://cheltenhampoetryfestival.co.uk/poetry-competition-2025-winners/ Photo by Stephen Hodges, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1768004
Poetry
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The thread we followed through the corridorsis gently placed back in our hands.You first through the door, me last,your tethering shadow. At every corner we hesitate—did we go left, go …
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After you leave meI walk through the neighbourhood.The owls are unlatching their wings,curtains peeled to revealcups on the draining board,a silver-framed bride and groomwaving from a deep-shadowed porch.If I can’t …
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His fingertips burn as he weighs tomatoespicked under plastic in a Spanish valley.Last night the ocean gate-crashed into the sky.The sheep don’t mind, he says,it’s us has it worse at …
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The underbelly of this bridgemirrors the swim of waterbelow where a man once sat in a hutcollecting the tolls of west-bound travellerswho paid him in pebbles.He was vested with powerto …
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When fishing we were told, never unhookthe trout at the lip.It might thrash up stream, but only to die.Down the road they were splitting the atomin a giant doughnut.If it …
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Find it at Whale Road Review (Winter 2023): https://www.whaleroadreview.com/loudon/
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The men have brought us a lamb entire,bones for the breaking and a throat-shine of bleating stunned for Greek Easter tenderness.We watch them watching it drip on a spit, our hair …
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Find it on On The Seawall: https://www.ronslate.com/jericho-oxford-ektopia/
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Find it on On The Seawall: https://www.ronslate.com/jericho-oxford-ektopia/