Nancy Gaffield is an award-winning poet and former lecturer in creative writing at the University of Kent. She was born and brought up in Illinois and Colorado in the United States. Before moving to Canterbury in 1990, she lived in Japan and Egypt. Gaffield is the author of six poetry publications and a libretto for an opera composed by Nicola LeFanu. Her most recent publication, ‘Wealden’ (Longbarrow Press 2020), is a collaborative work that explores the connection between nature, poetry and electronic music. ‘Weary of Theory’ is from her collection Meridian (Longbarrow Press 2019).
the house is a machine for living yes there will come soft rains maybe in 2026 or some other time those rains will come but today is Tuesday & a festival of starlings arrives to feast on leatherjackets bathe with the carp in the pond catch up on the gossip from the canopy how can this not be a good omen you ask & just as suddenly as they arrived they are gone getting along perfectly well without us
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