Poetry
STAR POems: The Plot
By Helen Salsbury I went in search of the plot, in the metaphorical forest, where all the trees looked the same. I went with an older, American Writer, who’d seen it all before. ‘The story,’ [… read more ]
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STAR POems: Mark My Words
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. I will build a great, great wallaby on our southern bore, and I will have [… read more ]
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Star POems: The Sweetness of Clay
By Amanda Garrie We used to stand on street corners watching old men, fit for the slag heap, wondering if that were it: destined for the pit. We’d smoke our shag, curse everything and spit. [… read more ]
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STAR POems: Breaking the Silence
Breaking the long black silence they shyly call darkness be gone darkness be gone ancestral melodies stir the still damp air light is coming light is coming tiny shining eyes watch [… read more ]
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STAR POems: We Gathered
We gathered on the Common were searched at the gate for illicit chairs – no dispensation for me. We watched the ukulele rap duo and waited for the voices our bums on beanbags on rainbow [… read more ]
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STAR POems: Where I Belong
I am the sea I would live and die here (with grace, as our ancestors did) If I could outswim this spike embedded in my side I never dived to the depths wanting [… read more ]
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Portsmouth Writers’ Season: Vin Adams
Local poet, actor and spoken word performer Vin Adams will be appearing at A Word In Your Ear, a Labour Party fundraising event at 7.15pm on Thursday 27th September at the Hunter Gatherer café, Albert [… read more ]
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Portsmouth Writers’ Season: Richard Williams
S&C regular and admired local poet Richard Williams will be launching his new collection, Landings, at the Square Tower, Old Portsmouth on Thursday 20th September at 7.30pm. S&C poetry editor and Ted Hughes Prize winner [… read more ]
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STAR POems: China Town, London
Made in China, nurtured in London. I parade a toy town in China Town, picking up oranges with exotic names. Fruit sellers with ‘painfully British’ on their passports. I am British, quarter Chinese. [… read more ]
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Old
I am retired But I am not Tired (not all the time, anyway) I will go to a care home soon Where I will be cared for If I’m lucky But I still care And [… read more ]