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\nFrom: Not Saying Goodbye at Gate 21<\/strong> by Kathleen Jones, Templar Poetry, 2011.
\nReproduced here with permission.<\/p>\n
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Last week I featured fellow Tuesday Poet, Kathleen Jones’ “Winter Light”<\/a> in celebration of the Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice and the NZ festival of Matariki (which was Saturday 28th this year.)<\/p>\n When I was guest editor on the Tuesday Poem Hub on October 16, 2012<\/a> I featured another wonderful, wintry poem from Kathleen — Listening to Glenn Gould on Orton Scar<\/em>.<\/p>\n With Kathleen’s kind permission, I am featuring the latter poem again for you today. Both poems are drawn from Kathleen’s 2011 collection, Not Saying Goodbye at Gate 21<\/strong>, which won the Straid Collection Award<\/a><\/strong> in 2010.<\/p>\n If you want to read more of Kathleen’s work, you can also check out To the Gods, the Shades<\/em> (a personal favourite!) here<\/a> on Tim Jones’ blog — or by visiting her blog:<\/p>\n \u2014<\/p>\n Listening to Glenn Gould on Orton Scar From Ravenstonedale driving north on unfenced roads, moonlight reflects the tarmac\u2019s frozen wake across the moor \u2014 a snail’s trail\u00a0 in my rear-view mirror. Bach unwinds from the c.d. a landscape of variations into this zero night. The grass is white; trees black. The walls run off like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26116"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26150,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26116\/revisions\/26150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A Writer\u2019s Life<\/a><\/h3>\n
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