So I thought I’d try and update this old site and make something shiny and sparkly new as I am trying to find a publisher for my next pamphlet. First order of business is the excellent news that I have four poems in the new Spring 2020 issues of Poetry Wales. Thanks a million to Jonathan Edwards for choosing them. You can pre-order your copy here: https://poetrywales.co.uk/product-category/current-issue/
What else is new? Well since, 2015 which is when I think my last post was, quite a lot!! I’ve moved to Edinburgh, done a Masters in Screenwriting and started a job at University of Edinburgh. It was sad to leave Dubai but it was the right time. I’ll never forget the great times I had in the sandpit.
In memory of Dubai, here is my poem We Live In Water, which was published in the now-defunct Hinterland magazine:
We Live In Water
Dubai is merpeople
in neon fringed bikinis
no tails required
slick-skinned revellers
flitting between pool and plage
to finish in chromy towers
where we swallow as much
as we swim in…
Don’t tell me you don’t want
our poolside passionfruit vodka
don’t tell me you don’t want
our beaches that turn to nightclubs
our limitless champagne brunch
I won’t believe you
I never believed you
that’s why I came
Annie Brechin 