last update:
17 Sep21
poetry favourites:
Pindrop Press
HappenStance Press
Poetry Magazines
and in the shop…
collections –
“The Naming”
and
“The Alternative Version”
The Frogmore Press;
“Closing Time”
Pindrop Press;
bi-lingual –
“If Not Now”
Integral/CLP
(Bucharest);
pamphlet –
“In and Out of the Dark Wood”
HappenStance Press
anthology –
“The Silent Key”
The Frogmore Press
Postcard of Odessa
Clearing out another drawer,
I come across the postcard
quite by chance – sepia, faded,
the city’s name in Cyrillic script,
and before I know what I am doing
I am composing your name
in characters that are as unfamiliar
to me now as you are,
forty odd years on from the picnic
on the Potemkin steps, the glasses
raised to toast our futures
in the cheapest Soviet vodka;
and all the innocence you coaxed
from me, so tenderly.
Jeremy Page
in collection The Naming, 2021, Frogmore Press, ISBN 978-1-8380179-2-7;
previously published in Agenda
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