last update:
7th Jan26
poetry favourites:
Beautiful Dragons Collaborations and DragonSpawn Press
Brewery Poets
Coast to Coast to Coast
Echtrai
Maytree Press
Fire in the Head
Fly on the Wall
and in the shop…
collections –
“Only the Shining Hours”
and
“A Kind of Silence”
Maytree Press;
joint collection –
“Rugged Rocks Running Rascals”
DragonSpawn Press
YouTube poetry p f playlist: Barbara Hickson reading Out of Sight
First published in Not a Drop – just oceans of poetry,
Beautiful Dragons Collaborations (2016), and subsequently in Planet in Peril (2019)
and YouTube video for World Environment Day, 5th June 2020, Fly on the Wall Press.
The Yellow Field
When the fire subsides and I find myself
scratching through ashes,
searching for answers,
call to me from the greyness
of the smoke-filled sky, tell me why
we never tire of sifting
through our shortcomings;
remind me of the yellow field
where we sat one summer morning,
waist deep in sunshine,
our questions so weightless
buttercups held them.
Barbara Hickson
published in A Kind of Silence, Maytree Press, 2021, ISBN 978-1-913500-19-7
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