Literary Orphans

Hide Awake by Winston Plowes

You’ll need to slip under the fresh sheets of a day.

Dive into its white stillness and gag the dawn chorus.

 

Methodically bury each colourless silence from yourself

till the hunger moon thins.

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Winston Plowes lives aboard his floating home with his cat ‘Fatty’ near Hebden Bridge in Calderdale. In the past year he has collaborated with The Arvon Foundation, the BBC, Glastonbury Festival, UCLAN and Manchester Museum. He regularly teaches creative writing at The Square Chapel, Halifax and in schools. Winston was Poet in Residence for the Rochdale Canal Festival in 2012 and The Hebden Bridge Arts Festival 2012-14. Jointly self-published in Misery Begins at Home, 2010 and micro Chapbook Extras, 2014. His first solo collection of surrealist poetry Telephones, Love Hearts & Jellyfish, Electric Press is out this autumn. Winston is also inventor of the worlds first (and possibly last) Random Poetry Generating Bicycle, the ‘Spoke-n-Word’.

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–Art by Menerva Tau

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