Blue-Green Algae by Rosie Driffill Robert Macfarlane Some Couples evokes the lost

Some Couples evokes the lost and found

searching for the word’s version of music’s home key

The echo grows louder

Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry

Blue-Green Algae by Rosie Driffill Robert Macfarlane Some Couples evokes the lostIts nature poetry, so its pretty, and its ugly. Its us at our messiest, our most incongruous. Running around. Running away. Learning that there is nowhere to run to. In this meditation on flora, fauna, fire and failing relationships, birds flee, trees hide, gargoyles weep, Arcadia grows ever more distant, and we humans that we are see fit to plant marigolds and dig up dandelions. Cook chickens and swoon over kingfishers. Protect the game birds then