i was here

This short poem-film is a kind of contemplation – to do with stone, creation, mark-making, and fate – it features the poem ‘i was here’ with original music ‘i am stone’, together with images taken in the cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral in 2024. We trust you find/recall something here for yourself, with good wishes

neap tide – poem and film

Delighted to see my poem from the film neap tide published in issue 41 of The French Literary Review, editor Barbara Dordi, with thanks and good wishes, here’s the poem and film link:

neap tide

we bring beginnings

from a moorland life

bless and overlook

this silvery sea

hag-stone, pebble, snail

her rocks green-like weed

smooth, flat, velvet fur

we lay our clothes here

by steep pebble-slide

saltiness, breath, breeze

to deep warming sea

in wind and in rain

from every neap tide

on imagined lengths

stretching out for France

neap tide

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neap tide