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Twig
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Diviners by Breda Joyce

Diviners A child, I followed him around the field, held a wish-bone between my fingers. And when he paused and...
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Spider on hand
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Two Poems by Laura Grace Weldon

Foraging Pluck purslane and plantain for salad, shred it small so it slides by skeptics, know you’re kneeling in Eden...
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Condo
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Moving On, Not Moving On and Other Poems by D.R. James

Moving On, Not Moving On I think I knew our new home was two states west of home. But what...
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Writing the Land
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Writing the Land: Foodways and Social Justice

Writing the Land: Foodways and Social Justice is a collection of poems and essays that brings together poets, land protection...
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Magpie and Mouse, poems by Liz Quirke
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3 Poems by Liz Quirke

Boluisce I root my fingers, burying them back and down. A twist into black, acidic soil, deeper than anything man-made....
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Frost, poem by Breen
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Two Poems by Oisín Breen

So be it, unto us all    – Written in memory of Eadie, my wonderful rabbit, died aged 11, Feb. 13,...
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Three Poems by Nuala Roche

Gyrification There will be time for waiting Enough. Too much Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa watching. Consider the river’s meanders that more and more...
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Marske-by-the-sea
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A Thin Place by Annie Cowell

A Thin Place If you walk in a straight line across the beach from the footpath which runs between blue...
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Cow in mist
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Hailstones by Bel Schenk

Hailstones Why not slow down and pull up next to this black, sideways cow. Could this be a silhouette? Or...
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country lane
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Two poems by Marie Studer

The Last Mile I ran from tail flicking Friesians their eyes, pools of nowhere, and when everywhere wore off I...
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No Blue Plaques in this picture Clondra
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Blue Plaques by Elizabeth Ryan

There are no blue plaques in our village, no Heaney or Shackelton or Yeats to commemorate. A notable event is...
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sunrise
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The Silence of Daybreak by Michael H Brownstein

The vocabulary of whisper begins with fog over the river, a white break in the cloud cover, the great mastiffs,...
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