Wild Court

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

Yvonne Reddick

  • ‘Waterland’: a poem by Yvonne Reddick

    ‘Waterland’: a poem by Yvonne Reddick

        Waterland   There are still pike in Jesus Ditch. The length of three finger-joints, quicker than dactyls. Gone before you can say ‘Jack Pickerel.’ Drowned land, drained land, where earth is silt and blood and river. Fen Ditton stippled with pools, Milton’s vocal reeds. City built on water, don’t you know the Wash…