Lucy Newlyn (Page 2)

Lucy Newlyn

The Anthropocene

The Anthropocene

A poem about global warming, from my collection ‘The Pebble and the Feather’ (Ludo Press, 2019).

Virus Villanelles

Virus Villanelles

A sequence of seven villanelles about Coronavirus in the U.K.

Tess

A pantoum inspired by the superb BBC adaptation of Hardy’s novel,Tess of the D‘Urbervilles.

Five Sonnets from VITAL STREAM

Five Sonnets from VITAL STREAM

Five sonnets from my collection ‘Vital Stream’ (Carcanet, 2019), which tells the story of the Wordsworth circle in 1802 as William’s marriage to Mary Hutchinson approached.

Three sea-sonnets

Three sea-sonnets

Three sonnets inspired by the sea at Carne beach.

A Sestina for Sally

A Sestina for Sally

An imagined walk from Veryan to Portloe with my older sister Sally, who died in 1999 and never saw this beautiful place.

Carne

A poem about Carne Beach, which is an hour’s walk from our cottage in Veryan Green. This started life as a prose poem, but the rhyme took over and turned it into free rhyming verse.

A Prayer to Walt Whitman

A Prayer to Walt Whitman

A poem about the constraints of fixed form, expressing a longing to work in the medium of free verse.

The Last Abode

A poem prompted by seeing, in Veryan Churchyard Cornwall, an engraved stone which appeared to be growing out of a tree.

The Bleakness

A bleak poem about mortality, written during Lockdown, July 2020.

This Thing

A poem addressed to a fellow-sufferer of Bipolar.

Pas de Deux

A poem about coupledom, prompted by low mood during Lockdown, July 2020.

The Ballad of Mr Smith

The Ballad of Mr Smith

A ballad prompted by seeing photos of Bournemouth beach as Lockdown ended.

A Cornish Cottage Garden

A Cornish Cottage Garden

Photos taken in the garden of our Cornish cottage

Ars Poetica

The Prologue to 'Ars Poetica' (Ludo Press, 2019), a sonnet sequence about poetry and the poetry publishing world.

A haiku

A haiku prompted by looking at the steps which lead from our cottage to the front gate. They were strewn with petals from an overarching camellia tree in spring.

The Marriage Hearse

The Marriage Hearse

"A truly heartbreaking collection with a narrative that will take the reader from cover to cover again and again. A collection to be savoured."

Vital Stream

A work of historical fiction, an experiment in life writing and a verse drama designed to be read aloud. ‘Vital Stream’ takes the form of a long sonnet sequence, revisiting six extraordinary months in 1802 - a threshold year for William and Dorothy Wordsworth.

Collections of poetry published by Ludo Press

Collections of poetry published by Ludo Press

Poems on various themes, published while living in Oxford and Cornwall

Edward Thomas, Prose Writings

Edward Thomas, Prose Writings

An ongoing OUP edition of Edward Thomas's prose writings; General Co-editors Guy Cuthbertson and Lucy Newlyn

A Leeds obituary

A Leeds obituary

Jimmy Savile and the Leeds Millennium Tapestry

St Edmund finds a new home

St Edmund finds a new home

Light verse about the statue of St Edmund in St Peter-in-the-East

The writing-desk

The writing-desk

A poem about Sir Geoffrey Hill

Sally Amis

Responding to Philip Larkin's poem, 'Born Yesterday'.

Prayer

A poem for the planet.