William Oxley
Impasse Sade, Old Antibes
An entry on shadow and light,
no cars,
only the clipped accents of shod feet
and occasional ‘bon jour’
floating up high walls
and shuttered houses.
Dead-end entry on peace
where silence curls
smoke up orange-blossom branches
and tall palms
brush-big against arrestingly blue
jet-snipped skies.
In Anglo-French
a ‘cul-de-sac’,
but in this south of staring suns
and evenings like wine stains,
‘impasse’ is the word used
and discussion stops there.
William Oxley was Millennium Year poet-in-residence for Torbay in Devon. He co-edits The Long Poem Group Newsletter with Sebastian Barker. His most recent collection of poetry is Reclaiming the Lyre: New and Selected Poems from Rockingham Press, 2001 (see review page 69).
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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