Noon: Stories and poems from Solstice Shorts Festival 2018
By Cherry Potts
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Featuring stories from Barbara Renel, Clare Shaw, Diana Powell, Elaine Hughes, Karen Ankers, Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier, Liam Hogan, Lily Peters, Marka Rifat, Patience Mackarness, Roppotucha Greenberg, Su Yin Yap;
and poems from Alison Gerhard, Alison Lock, Anne Elizabeth Bevan, Catriona Yule, Elinor Brooks, Gareth Culshaw, Graham Burchell, Ian Grosz, Jane Aldous, Laila Sumpton.
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Noon - Cherry Potts
First published in UK 2019 by Arachne Press Limited
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#Noon © Su Yin Yap 2019
A Vampire at Noon © Patience Mackarness 2019
After Hours © Stuart McKenzie 2019
An Autumn Noon © Ian Grosz 2019
Angelus at Noon © Patricia McCaw 2019
Arthur Streeton Advises his Students © Mandy Macdonald 2019
By the Obelisk Sundial, Drummond Castle © Jane Aldous 2019
Farewell my Father © Anne Elizabeth Bevan 2019
Fire at Midday © Susan Cartwright-Smith 2019
High Noon © Marka Rifat 2019
I am not Beautiful at Noon © Elinor Brooks 2019
Jackdaw © Elaine Hughes 2019
Mad Dogs and English Men © Laila Sumpton 2019
Moon Jellyfish © Ness Owen 2019
Mother Hand © Karen Ankers 2019
Noon Child Unknown © Diana Powell 2019
Noon Son © Alison Lock 2019
Noon Talk © Graham Burchell 2019
On Kings and Falling © Roppotucha Greenberg 2019
On the First Calculation of the Circumference of the Earth
© Alison Gerhard 2019
Pocket Watch © Catriona Yule 2019
precarious © Michelle Penn 2019
Still No Name © Marika Josef 2019
Sun Beats over New Orleans © Natalie Gasper 2019
Toast Crumbs © Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier 2019
Twelve o’Clock from the House © Nicholas McGaughey 2019
Under the L © Liam Hogan 2019
Unleashed © Paul Foy 2019
Up on the Roof © Lily Peters 2019
Veranda © Clare Shaw 2019
Winter Ritual © Sara Elgerot 2019
Winter Solstice © Gareth Culshaw 2019
Woman and Child © Barbara Renel 2019
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Stories
img3.jpgFarewell My Father
Anne Elizabeth Bevan
The voice of my father reached me
From the height of the salt water spray,
Glancing the rocks with his simple accent,
More distant now than in my childhood;
I listened