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25 Jan24
e-mail Gill Learner
Gill Learner at Second Light
poetry favourites:
Two Rivers Press
Poets’ Café, Reading
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Second Light
Grey Hen Press
The High Window
Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre
and in the shop…
collections –
“Change”,
“Chill Factor”
and
“The Agister’s Experiment”
Two Rivers Press
Albatross
Far-flying, far-seeing,
solitary,
the great span
harnessing air.
A sudden folding
to torpedo depths.
The raising of a creature
to a different element.
Distance shrinks
in his weightlessness
yet he’s burdened
with mystery and myth.
Gill Learner
first published in Acumen 88, May 2017;
in collection Change, 2021, Two Rivers Press, ISBN 978-1-909747-89-0
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