Author: Barry Tebb

Memories bursting like tears or waves On some lonely Adriatic shore Beating again and again Threshings of green sea foam […]

I struggled through streets of Bricked-up, boarded-up houses, Mostly burned-out, keeping To the middle of the road, Watching the abandoned […]

L’orage qui s’attarde, le lit dйfait Yves Bonnefoy Here am I, lying lacklustre in an unmade bed A Sunday in […]

for Brenda Williams The dawn cracked with ice, with fire grumbling in the grate, With ire in the homes we […]

O my beloved city, How many times have I deserted you For the sights and sounds of Babylon? How often […]

Dawn’s my Mr Right, already Cocks have crowed, birds flown from nests, The neon lights of Leeds last night still […]

Runs to no compass point But starts within the human heart Where travellers in twos may go As for a […]

Desks are straining on all fours, flanks Heaving to hurl the hunched riders Down crack and cranny, buck Finger-snapping lids, […]

The unsettled trees seem to share My tensions of body and mind: Unable to move before the shell of the […]

To Simon Jenner NO ARMITAGE (I’d like to see his rage) NO DUHIG (one dig long overdue) NO GREENLAW (M […]