Author Archives: Julia, Editor
From The Pomegranate,
Spring 2025 http://www.thepomegranatelondon.com
From my old stomping ground, Manchester…
Wordview 2022
As the year ends, I am pleased to confirm that this poem is one of the top twenty selected for the permanent Poetry Archive.
Delighted to be in this month’s Southword 43
Bradford
Bradfordafter Jamie McKendrick Bradford the milly, the chilly, the everywhere hilly, the Yorkshire, the canny, the Rajasthani,The Polish, the Irish, the Romany, the homeless, the homesick, the Manningham native,the dislocated and the keypad-gated. Bradford the hyped, the skyped, the lifetime saved-for,the quixotic, the Quaker, the fortune-maker.The fresh start, the loan shark, the business start-up, the kohl-eyed, the streetwise, theContinue reading “Bradford”
The Great Indoors
Sensing a chill in the air, I brought the universe indoors with the tomatoes. It had been out there so long, I felt it was too old for nights out and needed me. The moon came first and went straight to the cat basket where, unlike the cat, it seemed happy. Grateful, even. Sirius madeContinue reading “The Great Indoors”
Syzygy
Seen from the moon, the earth is jewel-bright:a swirl of blues and yellows, greens and whites.Surveying space in search of life, you’d knowimmediately – it looks alive. You’d slowyour engines to a whisper and just stare.Whole oceans shine: they really are azure;the forests emerald; the deserts gold.Even the clouds cling like wisps of packagingaround someContinue reading “Syzygy”
Small dreams of a doormat I shall do such things… what they are yet I know not– King Lear Go on then – don’t make eye contactjust walk all over me, I know my placeamong the lowest of the low, pushed into doorwaysunder everything and everyone;you’d put me right out if you could, except –Continue reading
Julia Deakin 