{"id":17503,"date":"2018-10-08T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=17503"},"modified":"2018-10-08T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T11:34:13","slug":"change-for-national-poetry-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/change-for-national-poetry-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Change – for National Poetry Day: Deborah Sibbald, Carol Caffrey, David Ross Linklater"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dadaville<\/b><\/p>\n

the number of families placed
\nillegally in bed and breakfast
\nhotels and other unsuitable
\ntemporary accommodation
\nhas risen
\nby three hundred percent since twenty
\nfourteen<\/p>\n

there
\nis a visible rise in the numbers
\nrents are unaffordable<\/p>\n

of\u00a0 multi million<\/span>
\nhousing developments and the
\nconstructors must guarantee to
\ninclude a number of affordable homes
\nthough rich investors don\u2019t
\nwant to mix
\nwith less well off <\/span>
\ntenants so build\u00a0 \u00a0 seperate
\nentrances bicycle sheds and
\nbin sheds where people sleep
\nhidden
\nfrom closed circuit
\ntelevision nineteen <\/span>
\nthousand empty buildings<\/span>
\nare units for <\/span>
\ninvestors accumulating
\nwealth<\/p>\n

three thousand and sixty nine people
\nare seen sleeping rough on any night
\nin public places under dripping bridges
\nbeneath umbrellas or tents in
\nparks subways
\nand doorways
\nare you in priority <\/span>
\nneed or intentionally
\nhomeless
\npriced
\nout The average age
\nof death
\nof someone sleeping
\nrough is Forty
\nseven<\/span><\/p>\n

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Deborah Sibbald<\/strong> lives, works and writes in London and has recently begun to submit some of her work<\/p>\n

Note :This poem first appeared in February in the Verve Press anthology \u00a0It All Radiates Outwards<\/em><\/p>\n

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Post-Partum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Night cloaks all living things
\nand earth itself holds its breath;
\nwildfires flicker here and there
\nwhile other patches
\nof the wasted land shrivel
\nunder smoke and ash.
\nWhen day exhales at last a snapping twig,
\na rustle in the windless trees, brings suspicion not relief.<\/p>\n

We are in the debatable lands now,
\nno longer speak in the easy buy propecia generic online<\/a> ways.
\nWithin the borders of silence
\nwe take a breath, take someone\u2019s
\nmeasure before we ask:
\nwhich way did you vote, then?<\/p>\n

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Carol Caffrey<\/strong> is an Irish writer and actor who lives in Shropshire with her husband and two grown-up children. A former teacher and full-time mother, her work has appeared in\u00a0Poetry Ireland Review<\/em>, Bare Fiction<\/em> magazine, the Fish Anthology<\/em>, Ink Sweat & Tears<\/em>, Lunch Ticket<\/em> (Antioch University Review) and the Galway Review<\/em> . She tours a one-woman play by Irish poet and playwright, Paula Meehan, called Music for Dogs<\/em>.
\nNote: Post-Partum, previously published in the Write to be Counted<\/em> anthology, in aid of PEN.<\/p>\n

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Misadventure<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He died through misadventure
\nor so he tells me. And the street
\ncleaner cleans the street
\nand the fire engine sings
\nand the woman takes a valium
\nand the sax man plays his sax
\nbut today you can feel he’s just
\nnot in it and the boy holds a coffee
\nto his face for something warm
\nand the beggar calls the smoke back
\nbefore exhaling and all the world
\nis in need of love.<\/p>\n

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David Ross Linklater<\/strong> is a poet from the Highlands living in Glasgow. His pamphlet Black Box was published in February by Speculative Books. Twitter @DavidRossLinkla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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