Latest Poems
The Politics of Fear
This was published by Cinnamon Press in 2009, in an anthology called In The Telling. I was reminded of it on Wednesday, while Rachel and I walked along the Cardiff Bay barrage, during a two day celebration of our friendship. What a deep and terrifying power lies in the movement of the sea. The seaside…
Rites of Passage
This was first published in an anthology of prose poetry, by Cinnamon Press in 2011 – This Line Is Not For Turning, It’s late; crowds of kids drink and josh on the grass lawn in front of the Royal Crescent. A boy, tumbling from the bushes, adjusts his trousers. He stands, comfortably, on the path…
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This was first published in an anthology of prose poetry, by Cinnamon Press in 2011 – This Line Is Not For Turning. One reviewer saw it as about travelling and moving on; for me it’s about loss. I wrote it after the my mother, Florence Bird, died. I still miss her. Someone had folded her…
Poetry by Sylvia Fairclough 