My sixth poetry collection, Go Sprout The Grain!, is out now!
This collection is a varied mix of old and new poetry. From corn dollies, the migrant plight, dinosaurs, Janet Frame, school assemblies, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, to Ladybird book artist Charles Tunnicliffe.
Cover design and pen and ink illustrations by Mark Sheeky.
Sunna Geolu
Peasant hearts of Heathendom beat
to the corn maiden’s pirouettes
across scythed magic
Her neck found in the last of the sheafs
that bathed in sunna geolu
and supped rain flaggons of yore
Cut in her prime
before wattle time
Peasants’ gnarly fingers craft knots to tree sonatas
Crack the spines for a chestnut heart
Her corn blood incarnate bleeds
through mankind’s vaults
who ate many an ear
Shake the pershores, goos and blegs
Gatterberries, skaldberries bumblekites
Plait the pastry, lick with yolk
Kindle the tinder for hungry folk
In pewter moonlight
she lies with the new crop
Stiff little fingers splayed
ready
to hold the first grene’s hand
She, the infinity grain ∞
Poem: Copyright © Deborah Edgeley
Illustration and cover design: Copyright © Mark Sheeky
