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• Book Review. Honorifics by Cynthia Miller 

  Calling me unearthly shows how small your world is 

  Honorifics by Cynthia Miller 

  Honorifics published by Nine Arches Press is a collection of exciting poetry with themes of cultural identity, immigration and home. There’s a poignancy in the poems that write about memory and loss. The backdrop of these poems spans countries, as well as time and space. [Moon Jellies Escape] was one of my favourite poems in Honorifics ‘we launched ourselves out of the airlock, plotted an uprising, bolts of iridescent moon jellies lunging into space like blue greyhounds, daring and unstoppable, hollering in light.’  The poem has so many lines that fired up my imagination.

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  March 2, 2023

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• CONNECTION

  how quickly the room fills 
  as the rain slashes 
  coming down
  and shooting through the window like stars 
  
  people pull out stools 
  and the glasses on the bar shatter 
  as stud buttons on sleeves
  cuff them 
  
  i can feel desperate for conversation
  and i stare at you sideways 
  you, with your arms crossed across your chest 
  eyes fixed on the television 
  which is mounted onto the wall opposite
  
  i catch you looking 
  as if you are
  searching 
  in the faces of people, listening to their conversations, 
  trying to find a place at the bar, so you can order drinks 
  as the old men talk about the football
  and you open your mouth 
  as if to say something to them 
  to be a part of
  the discussion on a blind ref, diving and a no penalty decision 
  
  the moment passes 
  and you instead 
  nod to the barman 
  as he says, ‘the usual?’ 
  and throw down the twenty-pound note. 
  

  CONNECTION, a poem from my chapbook, HOME. Which you can read here

  

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  May 25, 2022

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• What does home mean to you?

  the mountain of jumpers on the arm of the chair / the opened packet of biscuits with a twisted top / puzzle pieces, scattered and abandoned on the coffee table / a pen without a lid / 2, 3 different books / pink sticky notes / a lodged fraction of a crisp, nestled underneath the cushion, that missed my mouth /

  June 6, 2021

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• BITS – Kate Lewington

  i have a new prose/poem called BITS up at Foxglove Journal. This is one of the poems in my newest wip abt home, belonging & connection. It would mean a lot if you read it. You can read BITS at https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/

  Foxglove Journal

  possessions now in boxes, supermarket bags and carrier bags, holdalls with busted zips

  stains, stray hairs and the imprint of wooden legs

  i lock in

  next
  finding new ways to adapt –
  new way of getting places, shortcuts through rows of houses, new faces – neighbours, dog walkers and pub owner

  same skyline, different angle to aspire from, building tops puncturing the blue –
  spires as needles, moving in tandem on a machine –
  threading a tapestry
  as i fly by on my bicycle.

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  Kate Lewington is a writer/poet and blogger. She writes on the themes of belonging, loss, mental illness & hope. She is passionate about learning, social justice, food, music and comedy.

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  October 12, 2020

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• Masquerade by Cyrus Parker.

  Every poem in Masquerade by Cyrus Parker I want to put my arms around and embrace. As somebody still discovering their identity I can relate all too well to Parker’s words. I enjoyed this book more than their first book, as I felt I could relate to the poems more.

  

  Fixer-upper

  self-confidence is built in layers,
  the same way a house begins

  with bare bones before becoming a home:
  and just as each house has its own layout,

  there isn’t only one set of blueprints,
  one right way to build self-confidence.

  sometimes it starts from the inside out
  as one learns to love themselves, and

  sometimes it starts from the outside in
  as one projects the person they hope to be.

  sometimes, you have to tear everything
  down and start over from the ground up.

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  August 21, 2019

  Books, Contemporary, cyrus parker, home, house, Poem, poems, Reading, self confidence

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