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  • Poems I
    • Resurrection
    • Generation ’56
    • The Revolutionary
    • Memory
    • The blackbirds come
    • The gull, inland
    • A poet’s refusal to read
    • Vigil
  • Poems II
    • At the end
    • and Tracey dancing
    • Waiting time
    • Pips
    • Rereading Sylvia Plath
    • Overdue
    • Bruised fruit
  • Poems III
    • February forgets
    • My wedding ring and I
    • Mr Venus
    • Wheel spin
    • The midnight bird
    • By the cathedral
  • Short fiction
    • The scent of snowdrops
    • Honey Bunny
    • Our Lady of Locomotion
    • Each other’s keeping
    • The Buddha was a fat man
    • Flash fiction
    • Remington rescue
  • Non-fiction
    • A landscape of love
    • Angela Carter lives in south London
    • The Accidental Tourist in Baltimore
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The gull, inland

The gull, inland
knows this is not home
but wheels in silent arcs
across the grey

The sea is leaving
grieving
its deep and icy past
where lands submerge.

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