Jeff Guess

Melbourne Cup There’s an unmade sand track off the only sealed section of the Dalkeith Road where an untidy corner of rolled rusty wire...

Flannan Isle Though three men dwell on Flannan Isle To keep the lamp alight, As we steered under the lee, we caught No glimmer through...

Fields of Athenry By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling ‘Michael, they have taken you away, For you stole Trevelyan's...

John Berryman Dream Song 108 Sixteen below. Our cars like stranded hulls litter all day our little Avenues. It was 28 below. No one goes...

Matthew Arnold Dover Beach The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light...

Jon Silkin Death of a Son who died in a mental hospital aged one Something has ceased to come along with me. Something like a person:...

Rodney Hall Dark Afternoons She Spent Dark afternoons she spent discovering again old roads, now grassed, that led from town through...

Philip Larkin Church Going Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting,...

A B (Banjo) Paterson Clancy of the Overflow I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him...

e e cummings [Buffalo Bill 's] Buffalo Bill ’s defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break...