Hilary Davies
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Two poems from ‘Compass Light’ by Hilary Davies
Below are two poems from Compass Light, the new collection from Hilary Davies, recently published by Renard Press. River People Some of them – have you noticed? – hardly everset foot on land; the chug and wash to themare sweet as lullabies rocking cradles;I saw one once step up onto a quay, staggertwo long…
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‘In the Mountains of the Monédières, by the Green Waters of the Vienne’ – a poem by Hilary Davies
© Hilary Davies In the Mountains of the Monédières, by the Green Waters of the Vienne In the mountains of the Monédières I sat by the brook and waited for you. The young goats came to see And the pipits dipped all along the watercourses. On a sudden I thought:…
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A poem by Hilary Davies
Below is a poem from the sequence ‘Rhine Fugue’ by Hilary Davies, which appears in her fourth collection, Exile and the Kingdom (Enitharmon, 2016). A note by Hilary follows the poem. V Printing William Tyndale’s New Testament, Peter Schoeffer’s Workshop, Worms, 1526 Come here and see the frameset of…