Clare Best
Ingredients
1. A rush of growth – Cherry Holt, Leeks Land, Gull Field,
all have green to astonish. 2. An arrival:
parachute in or walk
across the Wash. Try to arrive on time.
3. Gates, five-bar, grey-weathered, the perfect height
to lean on and look.
4. A good pair of eyes. 5. A Bramley orchard
and under the trees, a scatter of turkeys
in Bourbon Red, Lavender Blue. 6. Enough sun
then rain to heal any breaks in the mud.
7. Barn owl, skylark, sedgegrass, earthworm,
some of each. 8. Blackthorn hedges –
shelter for Longwool sheep.
9. An unclouded sky for storms to invade.
10, 11 & 12. Assorted brassica seed.
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magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The