Showcases (August, 2023) by David L O’Nan in Fevers of the Mind (USA) and on the Mary Evans Poems and Pictures blog (UK) accompanying Mary Evans’ publication of Just the Ticket with a marvellous bridal photograph
The Phare magazine, summer 2023: Just the Ticket
Interview with poet Sian Thomas on her show Poetry Bath for Wildhart radio, including poetry readings
Fevers of the Mind, the online poetry blog of David L O’Nan: a selection of poems and 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)
The Phare magazine (Winter, 2021)- Cleopatra on Portstewart Strand
Places of Poetry anthology (Oneworld, 2020) – Carnlough Bay
Mary Evans Picture Library – Poems and Pictures blog: Off the Map, alongside a photograph by William Alfred Green of the Castles of Commedagh, Mournes, early 1900s; High Winds, alongside a beach painting by Sir John Lavery, 1911; Beach Hut Christmas, alongside a design by Tess Hines, circa 2018; Mirror, alongside Picture 11123621, photograph, early 20th century; Seventeens, alongside a woodblock print, ink on paper, attributed to Ohara Koson; Oyster Seventeens with Jacob Foppens van Es, Still Life with Oysters, oil on panel, mid-17th century
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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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WORDS FOR THE WILD online magazine:
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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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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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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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Rosie Johnston 