Helen Bowles Myth and Legend fragment:
It sliced earth’s sleeping dark of peat
through moor grass browns and purples,
green further down and buried gold
of autumn drop or yellow clay bed
“In poetry writing, I have always enjoyed the challenge of trying to connect with the spirit of place, and our human relationship with it, often within a historical dimension. The Templer Way art-poetry collaborative project supplies a wonderful opportunity for this in the stimulating cross-pollination of image and word.”
Ian Royce Chamberlain:
Virginia Griem Fora & Fauna fragment
At dawn they come from the sea
a thump of pinion and bone.
Alwyn Marriage:
Rosie Jackson Granite Stone fragment:
And Stone said …
Let me know the sound of things roaring.
Let me hear linnet and robin song.
Let me come close to your home and chimney
Tom Woodman :
Marc Woodward Remnants & Fragments fragment:
When they opened Springtide they found Alice,
still as a waxwork in a garden chair,
Susan Taylor
Susan Jordon Human Traces fragment:
One step along the way takes you back
to where you didn’t mean to go:
Veronica Aaronson:
Susan Jordan:
Rosie Barrett:
Hélène Demetriades:
Anne Gwynn Canal, Clay & Templer Way fragment:
Victims now of damp and decay
Their surface flakes, forms scaly scabs
Decomposing, dying metal
Ann Topping:
Simon Williams: