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6th October 2013
Poetry, Travels, UK

‘The St Pancras Pianos’ : A Poem

A poem that emerged from a memory cloud as I dashed through St Pancras Station – the first draft was typed into my phone on the Underground and read an hour later at my National Poetry Day gig. As I was Tweeting about the pianos a fortnight ago, it seems fitting to publish it online. (And if anyone can explain…

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At Pancras Station pianos Rachmaninov

18th February 2013
Astra, Environmentalism, Poetry, UK

Encountering the Incalculable

On Advising a Young Man from Galway To Do a Second MA in Biodiversity And evening full of the linnet’s wings — WB Yeats Not sparrows, not dusty summer robins — linnets. Her tidy brown self; His Nibs, top-nobbing the fence posts in puffy pink vest, white epaulettes. Linnets. Not the slender, moth-grey echoes of Inishfree and Jenny Lind I’ve…

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Ann Skea barn owl Clare Island Granuaile grey seal Hilda Quick linnet Mark Cocker Matt Howard Michael Mackmin Norfolk RSPB short-eared owl The Rialto

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