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this poet is taking part in the poetry tREnD project

in collection Letters North, 2008 (Aug),

Brodie Press, ISBN 978-0-9542649-5-6

runner-up, Mslexia poetry competition, 2004

The Find

You might catch it on the corner of Sauchiehall and Hope Street

where the Big Issue seller stands sentinel with his dog,

and sometimes on the Isle of Iona when the sky is carved by cloud,

the sea turns serpentine and gannets dive target-sure.

It hid from me down an alleyway on Fifth and Seventy-First

amongst the rubbish sacks. I sensed it though.

Even whistled around the gasworks on the Torbay Road

as people held their noses on open-top buses.

My mother’s friend found it on Plymouth Sound on Armistice Day,

it was there all right, though the discovery was hers alone.

I found it once by Lake Columcille in the hills of Donegal,

the sun coloured the water mercury, etching the fields.

Julie-ann Rowell

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poetry favourites:
J A Rowell
Brodie Press
The Reader

and in the shop ...
collection -
"Letters North"
and
pamphlet -
"Convergence",
Brodie Press