Leontia Flynn
” … the furthest distances I’ve travelled have been those between people.”   - Leontia Flynn, ‘The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled’ These Days (Jonathan Cape, 2004) Posted in quotes Tagged: Eric Gregory Award winners, Forward Prize winners, Leontia Flynn, poets from Northern Ireland, The Furthest Distance I've Travelled, These Days

Peter Reading on posterity
“There’s no posterity to write for.  I’m writing now for mutated arthropods.”    - Peter Reading interviewed by Robert Potts, Oxford Poetry, Winter 1990/91 Posted in quotes Tagged: English poets, Peter Reading poet, Peter Reading quotes, poetry quotes

Sri Aurobindo on shadow and light
  “You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realisation perfect. Always you will see that within you the shadow and the light are equal. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use one to realise the other.”   - Sri Aurobindo Posted in quotes Tagged: Indian freedom fighters, Indian nationalists, Indian philosophers, Indian poets, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo quotes, yogis

Things To Do Before You Leave Town
  Ross Sutherland was born in Edinburgh in 1979. He was included in The Times’s list of Top Ten Literary Stars of 2008. His debut poetry collection, Things To Do Before You Leave Town (Penned in the Mar

Patricia Leighton’s The Burgundy Madonna
Patricia Leighton is an ex-middle school teacher from Worcestershire, United Kingdom, who has been writing poems for a number of years on and off (with time out to indulge in some children’s writing). She has work published in a number of magazines including Rialto, Iota, Fire, Dream Catcher, Nottingham Poetry International, Obsessed with Pipework, Spokes and a couple of Bridport Prize anthologies.     The Burgundy Madonna Patricia Leighton   Lady, was there always this distance, this gap of mutual love?   Mixing his colours with holy