- The poetry for 'North Yorkshire One Nine' has now been collected.
There were over 300 e-mailed and real-paper submissions – thank you to everybody who submitted work, and sorry if yours was not accepted this time. We will be looking for poetry in the future and will inform all contactees.
Thanks to Arts Council England sponsorship, the poets who will also have work included in the book are:
Martin Bennett, Ken Baldwin, Pat Borthwick, Anthea Dove, Wendy Jemison, Sheree Mack, Tony Morris, Pamela Morton, Ian Parkes, Gareth Spark, Paul Sutherland, Isobel Thrilling, Johanna Whitely, and Shane V Wolfland.
'North Yorkshire One Nine Nine', with a foreword by the Right Honourable William Hague, MP, will be published in November 2006.
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In here,
By the Master's flame
Light is considered.
Daubed pigments are smeared, worried as thin
As a whispering of translucent gold;
Loose hues frozen
Like stained glass in lead loops.
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Dragon
A dragon is in the wood
- burnished scales spine along the ridge of oaks;
his breath smelts raw fern and furze to pure bronze.
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No Anger Now
Thirst for forgiveness
And remember -
The roots of a tree
Cast no shadow.
All vengeance
Is futile. It is biting
At the trunk of an oak;
It is kicking at a stone
In the foundations of a tower.
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Spring Kiss Prayer
I glimpse her brightness in pearled veils of rain
That dances as spark-teasing sustenance;
She's in this slow and yearning kiss we share;
In this long, living love
That is my prayer.
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Enchantress
Sit and listen for long enough
To this sea's incessant hissing
And there, it seems, you'll faintly hear
Shushed lullabies of mermaids singing.
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Mountain Stream
The slow, solid pulsing of northern hills
- hear it on the wind, booming in thunder.
The sinew and the marrow of this land
- see it veined in mines of coal and ironstone.
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