I am please to announce the arrival of a new chapbook called
everyday festival published by HappenStance Press.
ISBN 978 1 905939 36 7
Available for £4 (inc p&p) order online at www.happenstancepress.com or send a cheque payable to HappenStance to 21 Hatton Green, Glenrothes, Fife KY7 4SD. Further information from Helena Nelson: nell@happenstancepress.com
Here is a poem from everyday festival ~
Casting Off
She should have let him go ages before
he asked her, several times, I heard him,
but she stood thigh deep, her small hands on
the prow of his boat, offering instructions
in a gentle voice, as an air hostess does before
take off, her own fears chained together
like clauses and carefully wrapped around
as fast as he tries to cast off, until he can
take it no more and shouts to her to let go
and to shut up since he knows more about sailing
than she does, so she stands with her arms
at her sides, watching, while the wind takes
her son and his orange sails and carries him out
far on a run, so he cuts through the slate sea
not looking back, but we can just hear his voice:
I know far more about sailing than you do.
Rose Cook 