Dublin reading podcasts

My reading in June on the Wurm im Apfel series in Dublin is now available in two podcasts from iTunes (simply search for my name under the description--not author) or for streaming online on this page of the Wurm im Apfel site. I read selections by Claire Crowther, Frances Presley, Anna Reckin, and Lucy Sheerman from Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, as well as some of my own work from that anthology and from my pamphlet Yet (Leafe, 2008). Thanks to Kit Fryatt and Dylan Harris for the invitation and their generosity, and to Poetry Ireland for funding the event.

Infinite Difference, sampler no. 3: Lucy Sheerman's "Mine"

Mine

The heart honeycombed; its collected spread

of prospects accrued in court precincts. Late

afternoon. Windows blazing. Walls gilded.

Sudden Suburban stillness. Sunbury.

Gold seams thread the fabric of the in thing

necklace boxed unthreading thirty years from

hand to throat spun into strands. Locketed.

The ache worn threadbare. Later years alter.

Settling. Sedimentary. Paint coats

over paint work. The lustre lost. Wake a

while. Blanket folds under fingers unfurled.

Feathers, leaves, stones, square the edges. Weighted

Down. Memories sink sleep deeper unmazed.

A king's picture--as I had dreamt of him--

chest covered in blood; heart on the outside.

Don't worry. Sound carries meaning intact.

Lucy Sheerman

The anthology can be pre-ordered from the publisher, Shearsman Books, or The Book Depository in the UK and from The Book Depository or Small Press Distribution in the US.