28 December 2021
Two Poems by Alison Glenny
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FOREST
He claimed to have invented the night. This was not Romanticism, which was mainly a question
of translation. Yet she was often mute during their carriage rides. Some believed her
melancholia was due to mourning the poem, which came to grief in a quarrel over nightingales.
Others referred to a nostalgia for the forest. She had often drawn attention to its winding paths
and, where they diverged, the touch of dark wings.
-----7 Amatory (noun)
Alison Glenny’s Antarctic-themed collection of prose poems and fragments, The Farewell Tourist, won the Kathleen Gratton award for poetry and was published by Otago University Press in 2018. In 2019 she was an Ursula Bethell writer in residence at the University of Canterbury, working on a project about Edwardian female mountaineers. She lives on the Kāpiti Coast in Aotearoa New Zealand. Bird Collector is out now from Compound Press. Cover image: Unsplash. Illustrations taken from Bird Collector.
- A woodland path or cloister used for nocturnal walks, often with a wandering or irregular design.
- A cabinet or chest intended for a piece of music performed once at evening, then laid aside.
Alison Glenny’s Antarctic-themed collection of prose poems and fragments, The Farewell Tourist, won the Kathleen Gratton award for poetry and was published by Otago University Press in 2018. In 2019 she was an Ursula Bethell writer in residence at the University of Canterbury, working on a project about Edwardian female mountaineers. She lives on the Kāpiti Coast in Aotearoa New Zealand. Bird Collector is out now from Compound Press. Cover image: Unsplash. Illustrations taken from Bird Collector.