John Daniel
My mother’s kitchen
My mother’s kitchen is empty now.
It has all been cleared -
the dead geraniums, the cooker
she could no longer use,
the green cupboards my father
fitted in the 1950’s, the bowls,
the china with the leaping stag,
the potatoes bubbling round the joint,
the recipes on faded paper.
She’s wheeled up to the table now
remembering sometimes in a slide of mind
that saucepan, those dents,
a tea-towel with heraldic arms,
the castles she visited in Spain.
John Daniel is published in a wide variety of magazines. A Winner of the Exeter prize and commended in last year’s National, his poems have also appeared in anthologies - 23 British Poets (Swallow) and Faber Introduction series. A volume, Missing the Boat, was published last year by Etruscan Books.
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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