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ARTEMIS
poetry Final Issue, 33 extracts now online

ARTEMIS
poetry Issue 32 extracts now online

2024 Competition RESULTS

Poets of the Month:
Oct 24

Listen to poems (latest by Gill Horitz, Gill Learner and Sarah Westcott)

2023 comp. and earlier RESULTS

Poets of the Month
(from Nov17)

Poem of the Month
(to Aug17)


 

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ARTEMISpoetry Final Issue, 33, is now available

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Poets of the Month, our final selection (& see sample poem below, by Jenna Plewes

Featured Poets, October 2024 straight to poems
 

Annest Gwilym, Sometimes at Twilight…
Denni Turp, Held hard and fast
Helena Hinn, Pins
Jenna Plewes, Leave Me in the Light
Justina Hart, A Wire to Grief
Lyn Moir, Oh, Will…
Mary Robinson, The patron saint of hares
Nadine Brummer, The Frog’s Princess
Roz Chalk, Limen
Susan Davies, 23 Fitzroy Road, Primrose Hill
Vivienne Tregenza, Pelagos (1946)
 

 

Sample poem (selected at random)

Leave Me in the Light

When I die
don’t put me underground
cut down a giant oak
as they did
four thousand years ago
 
pull out the stump
drag it across the wide salt marsh
with honeysuckle ropes
upend it where the curlews call
 
lay me across its outstretched hand
under the sun, the moon
the turning stars
 
encircle me in
fifty trunks of oak
each split in two
fold a seamless skin of bark around my bier
 
leave me the smell of fresh cut wood
the shine of pale oak flesh
the sound of wind and tide
 
birds will clean my bones
midsummer’s rising sun will
find me through the keyhole of the east
and when midwinter sunrise looks for me
I will be gone.
 

Jenna Plewes

Winning poem in the Sampad competition and published in their anthology Inspired by my Museum.
 
Note: Seahenge on the Norfolk coast is a prehistoric monument built in the 21st century BC.

 

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