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November 2011: Launch of posthumous poetry collection
A Tenth of Hydrogen

Daphne Rock 1927 - 2008

 

published in posthumous collection,

A Tenth of Hydrogen,  2011, Corundum Press


 

Poets Die

 

Poets die still deep with words,

ribbons of lines, verses

like unstitched tapestries and whole pages

not yet set. They lie unfathomed,

crowded into jars and button tins,

beads waiting for stringing. Listen —

you hear them, small clinks of glass and pearl,

rolling around, not into emptiness, they wait

to make a way to the sun, quickened

even in earth.

 

Daphne Rock

 

   

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collections:
"A Tenth of Hydrogen";
"Is It Now",
Hearing Eye;
"Defoe, The Isle of Sheppey and the Fate of Things"
  -"Circular walk through the Heritage Landscape of Blaenafon"
    - "Easy to Miss:  Looking for the Lead Miner in Matlock Bath"
Corundum Press
 

   - "Waiting for Trumpets", Peterloo Poets

   -  "In the Spirit of Wilfred Owen: a New Anthology of Poems", Wilfred Owen Association

 


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