Cherry

BUT YOU WERE LOVED

When “I love you” becomes “I loved you”, Warm feelings freeze into dismay. How can the one you want not want you, While love in your heart pounds away?

Forever Alone Chapter Six- Confused and Alone

Rakan sat against a tree for what seemed like ages, feeling worse than ever before.
Cherry

Back the Strand

Seamus Heaney actually wrote to me to say he liked this one. "I like the movement of your poem. Nice and taut. And I like that “cloud chased Coomanaspig”"

Crayfish

First appeared in Poetry Ireland Review. It also featured on the UK Arts Council website for over a year linked to from the main page!
Cherry

Semaphore

wandering down drills through redshank and nettle cabbage-whites bobbing, stray amongst the stalks, sticking the spade in and heaving the hoard-clutch, excavated

ABCtales Spring 2008 Newsletter 2

Dear ABCtalers,

Just a brief note to remind you that your chance to enter the 'Growing Up' competition ends this Friday. You can win copies of Joe Dunthorne's 'Submarine' and Drew Gummerson's 'Me and Mickie James' - both major publishing successes this year and both originating on ABCtales. Full details are here: http://www.abctales.com/node/573138

Hawaii

El Nino’s monopoly on imagination had them name it: Big Wednesday. Cars picked up and parked again. No more beach furniture. A midweek mountain range. Birds snatched from the sky.

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