Poems

Interview with poet Sian Thomas on her POETRY BATH radio show, summer 2025, including readings from Safe Ground (Mica Press, 2025) and a new poem, The Seagull

Showcases on the Mary Evans Poems and Pictures blog (UK) & by David L O’Nan in Fevers of the Mind (USA)

The Phare magazine: Cleopatra on Portstewart Strand

The Phare magazine: Just the Ticket

Fevers of the Mind, the online poetry blog of David L O’Nan: Rosie’s Quick-9 interview

A New Ulster, issue 121, January 2023, pages 29 – 33 inclusive: On a scale of one to ten; In the cool of this hottest day; Happy the Woman (a response to Horace and Dryden’s Happy the Man)

Places of Poetry anthology (Oneworld, 2020) – Carnlough Bay

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LONDON GRIP online arts magazine

Palm Tree Justice, New Poetry, winter 2019-20

Casca’s Table, New Poetry, autumn 2015 *

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Ink Sweat & Tears

They lie with the wild
honeysuckle,
dip their hair and toes in sunshine.

A sliver of time – her inhale,
his blink –
silence vibrates around them.

She holds both the clock’s hands, wrests
Time to a
stop, while he rests in her arms.

The longest minutes of her life:
between
last contraction and first breath.

New moon watches her nuzzle her
baby’s head,
tells Time to leave them be.

In each lark’s heartbeat, each spider’s
stitch, each
baby’s blink, Time stretches, yawns.

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Hedgerow magazine #36

Three cabbage whites, two dragonflies,
One thrush
Distinguishing silences.

Moorchicks sprint along the
Lily pads
Playing at flight with stumpy wings.

A baby toad, my thumbnail size,
His thumb
A perfect pinpoint marvel.

With the unhurried grace of a
Gardener,
Hope holds my elbow, smiles.

I dig and hear, near me, her
Silent breath –
She who first buried spring bulbs.

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Poetry NI link to FourxFour, issue 23: autumn, 2017, National Poetry Day UK, 28/09/17)
What can she know about safety? She’s an
empty can
rolling the street.
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That week-old bruise. Its slanting
rainbows
seem to offer distant rescue.
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Buds sway in sleet, notes without a
stave
in this diminished interval.
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Forget-me-nots shiver in her
fingers. A posy.
Words blow away.
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Rosie’s bat bits written for Cambridgeshire Wildlife Trust have been published from time to time in Cambridge Evening News

Amid tall rococo willow
Shadows
Bats flit a bold fandango.

From the lowest towpath shadows
To climb a veiled moon
Swoops pipistrelle.

Cam’s swaying willow skirts
Conceal
Cloak-and-swagger zigger-zagger bats.

A corner of the eye thing,
Flip flitter twitch
Ink-jinking overhead.

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In 2016 Live Canon, Greenwich commissioned 154 living poets to write their responses to Shakespeare’s 154 Sonnets. Rosie was allocated Sonnet 126. You will find Live Canon’s reading on the Performance page. 

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