BLUE Stephanie Green

(On stained glass by Emily Willis,

Edinburgh College of Art, 2005.)

What I like about you is your transparency.

I can see through you. It's a long view:

look how the wind describes circles

with willow branches in the river,

punctured by rain pebbles, rings within rings.

I cannot tell what is inside or out.

 

Yet I am more concerned

with the interrupted view.

That's where the light is:

the scratched, etched, painted surface,

and the opaque blue at your heart. 

 

First published in 'Glass Works' (Cat's Pyjamas Publications, 2005) and also in the anthology  'Skein of Geese' (The Shed Press, 2008).

 

 

  

 News

 

 

13-16th March, 2008

A Skein of Geese (published by Shed Press, 2008), an anthology of the poems read at the 100 Poets' Gathering at the  StAnza Poetry Festival, 2007 will be out in time for the 2008 Festival (13th-16th March).  Stephanie Green's 'Blue', a poem inspired by stained glass by Emily Willis, is included. 

Other poets include Douglas Dunn, Vicki Feaver, Valerie Gilles,  Gwyneth Lewis, Ruth Padel,  Penelope Shuttle,George Szirtes etc etc

See www.stanzapoetry.org

 

 

 

                                               11th December, 2007

Launch of  Only Connect  anthology of poetry

 held at Manchester City Library .

In a fast paced world it is all too easy for life to become fragmented and compartmentalised. This anthology, however, celebrates an alternative vision that can exist alongside or even between the cracks, a vision that emerges whenever we take time or are arrested by particular moments  that help weave a narrative through the fragments so that we connect, ‘only connect’.

Only Connect  published by Cinnamon Press at £7.99 can also be purchased on their website.  See www.cinnamonpress.com/

The 66 Poets in the anthology include Liz Ashwoth, Tony Curtis,  Phil  Carradice, Anne Cluysenaar and Merryn Williams.  Stephanie Green's 'Float Glass' is also included.

     

Recent News

 

Edinburgh International Book Festival

 

Stephanie read as part of

The Scottish  Pamphlet Poetry readings,

at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2007

See  Party Pavilion 

 

 

StAnza Festival

Stephanie read as part of the StAnza Poetry Festival,

March, 2007 in St. Andrew's, Scotland at the  100 Poets'

Gathering  celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the festival ,

along with Douglas Dunn, Vicki Feaver, Valerie Gilles,

 Gwyneth Lewis, Ruth Padel, Alistair Reid,

Penelope Shuttle,George Szirtes etc. 

 See Stanza wesbite  www.stanzapoetry.org/

 

Hay Festival

Stephanie read at the Hay-on Wye Festival , Wales

on 30th May, 2006  as part of the launch of

'The Lie of the Land'  an anthology of poetry

published by Cinnamon Press in aid of the

Meningitis Trust in Wales, along with many other

poets, including Ruth Bidgood, Christine Evans

and Owen Sheers.

 


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