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Camellia Stafford
Camellia was born in Warwickshire. She read English at King’s College London and has an MA from the Courtauld Instituteof Art. Presently, she studies poetry with Roddy Lumsden and previously studied with Michael Donaghy. Her poetry has been published on Limelight and she receiveda commendation in New Writing Ventures 2006.
publications:
another pretty colour, another break for air
Tender, sensuous and perfectly poised, another pretty colour, another break for air announces the arrival of a compelling new poet.
Kathryn Gray
Away from another pretty colour, another break for air
Seems to you I have fallen out of the world,
for I am a hundred miles away in a land
where car journeys unveil a rove of pylons
through the fields’ green and yellow mosaic.
I could follow their bowed wires home-home,
over the farmsteads, the Two Hoots stable.
Here, lanterns pearl their daytime respite.
Hedgehog scuttles the lawn where I sailed
the boat of my climbing frame, swung flight
from twists of orange rope and lined snap-
dragons freckled with pebble ground pollen
across the slab to trade on my lawn travels.
You’re right, I have fallen out of the world,
for I am a hundred miles away in a land
where someone gives me every meal
and the clothes I brought with me are clean
as a glint of silver by the time I say goodbye
in the home-home voice I keep from the world.