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Poem Of The Week

by Kona Macphee

After my first book came out, I spent a long time not writing. It's definitely overrated. Then, for over three years, I had this blog. It was the best thing I ever did for my writing.

Full list of poems

* The blind hillwalker

* Storm warning

* George Pirie’s hands

* Forensic Pathology

* High Speed Camera

* The Shopping Centre

* Soldier and piano

* Aurora [revised]

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* The new order

* What the tabloids know:

* The damned address the damned

* Three sketches of a mandible

* Fieldtrip with cuckoo

* The compensation

* Portrait of the artist as a small spacecraft

* Broken sestina

* Spring blues again

* The elements of matter

* Insomnia: LAST PUBLIC ENTRY

* The Great Wave

* Poem for Roy Batty

* It

* The last human

* encompass me, wild world -

* Wildlife cameraman

* A Christmas Clerihew

* The surgeon proves his superiority

* The Creator bids farewell

* An Irish Banker [...]

* Poem for a goodbye

* Portrait with arc welder

* Window, early

* Autumn unelegy

* The secret life of numbers

* Youth, Saturday 2am

* Wild raspberries

* Austerity measures

* For the avoidance of doubt

* To a staircase stone, Doune Castle

* U

* The radiometer

* Into the west

* The bitter guest

* Another anniversary

* The artificial heart

* Poem for Lily Song

* At the tattoo removal clinic

* One day after

* Radiography waiting room

* The poem I carry

* Over the border and up the stairs

* Holiday special…

* Arcturus at 40

* My life as a B Movie

* The fetishist

* The questions that [...]

* ‘o let me be’

* What it’s like

* Reaching a village

* Against melancholy

* On the scales

* New day, old ground

* Pheasant, Waverley Station

* The physiology of desire

* Belated apology

* Extrapolation

* Savant, Ward 3B

* An announcement

* Mary Porter’s questions

* Let fall your hands

* Demeter in white

* A year in the back country

* The assessment

* The problem of the bees

* Three vagaries

* My regrettable talents

* The departure

* The way of mastery

* Doctor Pangloss in Iraq

* The invention of the electric chair

* The short answer

* News of an old friend

* Hearing of bushfires

* Cleaning the kitchen

* Marchmont Road

* Science Fiction

* The unhappy marriage

* View from a window

* Magnolia credo

* Fireside lovepoem

* Mountain scene with roses

* A nano-fiction

* To a young daughter

* A minute’s silence

* Pears Translucent Soap

* Autumn evening blues

* Harvest Assembly

* Christmas holiday vignette

* Learning to speak

* A small reprieve

* Golden Wedding

* One of those parties

* Political counsel

* Last days at Benheath

* Scarlet fever

* The earthworm

* The man who shot down Saint-Exupéry

* Millennium Cairn

* Love Poem in B Minus

* Wild night’s morning

* Sonnet for Helen

* Summer morning why

* Four mementa mori

* Self-portrait aged 8 with electric fence

* The malfunction

* Pheasant and astronomers


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