Congratulations to Bowen Island poet Jude Neale for having her poem, Emptiness in The Garden, chosen to grace the walls of buses in the Channel Islands, UK. Neale submitted the poem to the Guernsey International Poetry Competition for 2014, and she will also be reading the poem (which is about her daughter leaving home) at the Guernsey Literary Festival.
It was also announced this week that Neale’s book A Quiet Coming of Light, has been short listed for the League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Memorial Award.
Emptiness In The Garden
Your sheets are pulled back
to reveal the small impression
you left for me to guard.
Your head laid here full
of dreams.
I walk with disbelief around the path
that you had worn so thick
with your parting
Towels capture your scent
the way moss fills chinks
