Martyn Halsall

Sanctuary


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      Sanctuary

      Martyn Halsall is a retired journalist, writing, reviewing and editing poetry at home in rural West Cumbria.

      Sanctuary

      Poems by

      Martyn Halsall

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      Copyright © Martyn Halsall, 2014

      First published in 2014 by the Canterbury Press Norwich

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      The Author has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988,

      to be identified as the Author of this Work

      British Library Cataloguing in Publication data

      A catalogue record for this book is available

      from the British Library

      978 1 84825 675 0

      Typeset by Regent Typesetting, London

      Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon

      Contents

       Preface

       Prelude: Leaving St Bridget’s

       Foreign Correspondent

       Close

       Akeland

       Here Lyeth Ye Bodys

       Gargoyles

       Entrances

       Runes

       Poets’ Corner

       Re-entering Afghanistan

       Jetsam

       St Antony and the Projectionists

       Mirror

       Estimating Zechariah

       Ribs

       East Window

       Fag Break

       Haiti

       Meeting Gabriel

       Sanctuary

       Outsider

       The Line

       First Reading

       The Redundant Psalmist’s Sudoku Theology

       On Preaching

       Lighthouse

       Congregation

       Shadowlands

       Crossings

       Catching the Greys

       On Unicorns

       Ark

       Staying in Air

       The Shopping of the Magi

       Nine Carols: Part-song

       Olaf’s Nativity

       Yew

       Two Kings

       The Night Watch

       Drawn Swords

       A Case for Dragons

       Resurrection: Evening Prayer

       Resurrection: Night Bus

       Quartets

       R. S. Thomas Visits the Cathedral

       Gaze/Imagine