Showing posts with label flood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flood. Show all posts

Sunday, 21 November 2021

The Last Days of Petrol out from Shearsman January 2022

How does it feel? Living in the last days of petrol?

A new poetry collection from p&g is coming out in January 2022 from Shearsman Books.


When everything is water

How did we get here? The roads have gone
Once there was a network and we plugged into that

Buses came for school only to the road end
Now they are swept away by the waves.

We are the central point our island of barn and beasts
Three bairns and many thrushes.

There is nothing left to share.
Fodder all squared up.

Once the helicopter came like a bee
Drawn by the flowers still blooming by the door.

More here https://www.shearsman.com/store/Bridget-Khursheed-The-Last-Days-of-Petrol-p389203133

The book cover photo is a picture of Selkirk swimming pool in the rain

Saturday, 29 February 2020

Thursday, 20 February 2014

Flood poetry

Take a look over on the prose and poetry webzine Ink Sweat and Tears for a poem of rain and commuting inspired by the A68 - a grand road bordered by hares and lapwings in season - but could be just about anywhere in the UK right now especially the southern half and contributed by p&g editor Bridget Khursheed.



Poet and artist Helen Ivory now runs Ink Sweat and Tears which has a long history for an online zine - founded by Salt author Charles Christian in 2007 as a platform for new poetry and short prose and experimental work in digital media.  IS&T reviews poetry, prose, prose-poetry, word & image pieces and everything in between.  Their tastes are eclectic and magpie-like [good] and they usually publish something new every day [better still].

Find Commute here http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?p=6356 and more about how to submit your own work to Ink Sweat and Tears here http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?page_id=23.