The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Victoria Gatehouse

Book cover showing a black background with a watercolour of a hawthorn branch in flower.

The haze of the otherworld

Matthew Paul reviews The Hawthorn Bride by Victoria Gatehouse (Indigo Dreams, 2024)
‘My Dog Brings me Back to Death by Victoria Gatehouse’ in black text on white with a teeny yellow Friday Poem blob over the words ‘My Dog'.

My Dog Brings me Back to Death

by Victoria Gatehouse — When he doesn’t respond to my call / I leave the path, push bracken aside / to find him rolling on badger pelt ...