Below are two poems from Alan Buckley’s collection Still, published by Blue Diode Press in 2025. The collection consists solely of ‘douzaines’, a form invented by the author. Under the two examples included here, Alan writes about the genesis and structure of the form. Stream And in the year my skin wasabandoned, I walked…

    Photo by Eva Wilcock on Unsplash            Ancestors   Their voices – those we barely remember, those we never knew – urge us to bear witness. A corpse on barbed wire. Nights filled with flames. One hand slipping from another’s grasp. They’ve suffered beyond our knowing. But then they ask us…