On reading On Gallows Down by Nicola Chester (pub 2021) – a memoir of place, protest and belonging – this poem came to me, taking her words and trying to apply them to my place, protest and belonging. I was very struck by how little of my life found echo […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Surfacing like an anxious submarine or wide awake at the press of any of my buttons – and they are many – you could say that I’m a light sleeper Murdered regularly in a hundred ways by as many assassins – you could say that I’m a light sleeper. My […]
Estimated reading time: 53 seconds