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Eleanor Rees
Eleanor Rees is the author of four collections of poetry. Her most recent is The Well at Winter Solstice (Salt, 2019) and her fifth collection Tam Lin of the Winter Park, in which these poems will appear, is forthcoming from Guillemot Press in May, 2022. Eleanor is senior lecturer in creative writing at Liverpool Hope University and lives in Liverpool.

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Three Poems

Poetry

April 2022

Eleanor Rees

Poetry

April 2022

ESCAPE AT RED ROCKS   I am the colour of the outside, a stillness moving like a winter tide, a new shoreline in formation,...

poetry

September 2012

Mainline Rail

Eleanor Rees

poetry

September 2012

Back-to-backs, some of the last, and always just below the view   a sunken tide of regular sound west...

  * * * zieleń jest zielona   z rana przymrozki   czujesz to w ziemi   w białej sukience   dalej przechodzą   nie wiedzą   jak zimno może być   w białej sukience     * * * greenery is green   come morning frost outside   you feel it in the ground   in their white dresses   on and on they pass by   not knowing   how cold it can get   in a white dress       * * * patronko dziewic i producentów świec woskowych daj któregoś z niebieskich pasterzy odetnę mu skrzydła żyletką * * * patron saint of virgins and the makers of ceremonial candles give me one of your heavenly hosts I will cut his wings off with a razor       * * * będziesz go kąpać osuszać ręcznikiem delikatnie kłaść do łóżka karmić jak niemowlę zrywać się nocą gdy zakwili będziesz go znowu miała jak twoje dziecko gdy wyrwiesz ziemi ciało i wtedy minie twoja gorączka * * * you will bathe him towel him off delicately lay him to bed feed him like a baby rise in the night when he moans will again have him like a child when you tear the body from the earth and then your fever shall pass     Genowefa Jakubowska-Fijałkowska’s poems have been published in numerous journals and newspapers, in her native Polish as well as in English, German, Czech, Russian and Slovene translations Her most recent bilingual collection, of me a worm and of the worm verses (2012), was published by OFF_PRESS in London Having twice been awarded the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship, she still lives and works in Mikołów

Contributor

August 2014

Eleanor Rees

Contributor

August 2014

Eleanor Rees is the author of four collections of poetry. Her most recent is The Well at Winter Solstice...

Crossing Over

poetry

September 2012

Eleanor Rees

poetry

September 2012

As he sails the coracle of willow and skins his bird eyes mirror the moon behind cloud. Spring tide drags west but he paddles...

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poetry

September 2012

Crossing Over

Eleanor Rees

poetry

September 2012

As he sails the coracle of willow and skins his bird eyes mirror the moon behind cloud. Spring tide...

poetry

May 2012

Monopoly (after Ashbery)

Sarah Howe

poetry

May 2012

I keep everything until the moment it’s needed. I am the glint in your bank manager’s eye. I never...

fiction

January 2015

Judge Sa’b

Uday Prakash

TR. Jason Grunebaum

fiction

January 2015

Nine years ago, after thirteen years of living in the Rohini neighbourhood of north Delhi, I moved, and came...

 

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