by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Aug 28, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Lightly a god, if he wishes, can save a man, even from far off Now a blanket is spread, offerings of chutney and shin bones, a taper held to the fire that heats the tar beneath our boats. A phial of bathwater discolours on a shelf, unemptied...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Aug 27, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Photograph, 2008 See the statue: grain flecked ridged with carvings the smooth intonations of eyes set quietly into the face See me: four years old palms to the stone and my face tipped slightly forwards ...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Aug 25, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
In my cookery exam, we have to prepare a family meal This is summer and Mum can’t put out her trot line with its hooks because of swimmers so I buy three mackerel from the fishmonger. I cycle to the school bus stop one arm on the handlebar,...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Aug 24, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Deathbed Fantasia as now melts & nowhere goes nowhere we wash up breathless a box of blue light star-cushioned harvesting morphine-thick razorlick-blueberry-pinch &...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Aug 23, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
You Again across the street I am washed off my feet my heart splashes up into pieces as if someone has thrown a stone into the pool of me all these years I thought myself dry ground but I am a stream a loch a river brim full sequinned with...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Aug 22, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Grief shows me just another sunset Dusk is dancing & all the visual technologies at hand feel overwhelmed: mobile eye, pit pastels, graphic card. It’s down to language, then, imagine. Above parade pearlescent clouds looking more...
