Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

Lucy Holme

  • ‘Bitter Hops’: a poem by Lucy Holme

    ‘Bitter Hops’: a poem by Lucy Holme

    Oasthouse cowls, Sissinghurst, Kent             Bitter Hops   I am the end of a Kent summer, the careful cutting of the bine. I return to pluck a bushel of woody twine from the neon green hop burr. I crush pellets in palms to molten spice, warm the oil between my hands, and…