Poetry

Yesterday I purchased a new poetry book, and I couldn’t be more excited. Buying books is a real treat for me, and when I stumble across a poetry book by my favourite contemporary poet – it’s like Christmas has come early.read more

by Stacey Lloyd I fumble through the kitchen drawer searching for something, not quite sure what, exactly. I come across a ball of thread, red in fact, and my mind wonders to the classroom... To a class who remind me of this thread and the dread I get in the pit of my stomach when I try to make them learn something. At times, you see, the attention of the grade nines Is held by a clumsy, delicate thread. If only t’were the puppeteer's string. My quick decisive tugs would bring them back to the space in which each movement I make mov[...]