boundby poetry library

Here you can find all of the poems ever published in boundby. We hope this is a space for you to stop, breathe and read a while. Just click on a heading to read the poems within.

Poems from our back catalogue will also appear here in time, so watch this space.

  • edition #003
    Mother Tongue

  • edition #003
    Medicine Line

  • edition #004
    Terracotta tiles

  • edition #001
    First Thing
    Breaking News

    more poems
    cat eyed
    once upon a time, you and i:

  • edition #002
    Chinese Lesson Continued

  • edition #003
    Out of the Bag

  • edition #003
    Suburban Living

  • edition #003
    Refranes

  • edition #002
    Timber Poem

  • edition #004
    baby dyke
    Computer Chess (2013)

  • edition #003
    On Mummy Leaving to Buenos Aires in August

  • edition #002
    Turgid Summer Rivers

  • edition #003
    Hospital

  • poems
    I Want to Watch My Body Nourish the Earth

  • essay
    Cycling through ‘The Mundane’

    poems
    A Lesson (Un)learnt
    Hangnail
    In Welsh, ‘Hill’
    The Penguin Book of Love Poetry
    To the girl who got me flowers
    When I Die, Cry for Me—

  • poems
    Don’t Mark the Date
    NEGOTIATIONS

  • edition #002
    Day After Mothers’ Day
    Good Closure

  • edition #004
    Gente del desierto

  • essay
    The Flag in Its Labyrinth

  • essay
    Cycling through ‘The Mundane’

  • edition #004
    Caveat
    A Great Pity

  • edition #004
    Parallel Bloodlines

  • edition #003
    Dead Eye

  • edition #004
    Clay Pit Engineer
    B Movie

  • edition #001
    Puthi
    Seagull

  • edition #001
    These Are the Things You Think About Before You Freeze to Death Outside of the Shell Station

  • edition #004
    IN THE HOUSE OF MY MOTHER

  • edition #001
    the sleepers

    more poems
    Her Ticking Heart

  • edition #004
    Cassandra
    Parking Lot

  • poems
    Dead Flowers
    My Jolly Sailor Bold
    My Sleeping Beauty
    Difficult Women: The Leaky
    What’s in My Bag // Minimal Everyday Essentials 2024

  • poems
    devour me.
    your cacophony

  • poems
    Kitchen Song
    Ghazal for Custard Apple

  • essay
    Poetic Responses to Eco-catastrophe

    poems
    Waltz for Body and Water
    Eavesdropping at the Forest’s Bed

  • poems
    Dreams of the Hunted
    Shower Habits

  • edition #002
    Shedding
    Giants

  • edition #002
    Summer, Late
    Shake, Shingle

  • edition #004
    New Balls

  • edition #004
    My Welsh grandmother conjures her future from The Imperial-Royal Dream Book

  • edition #004
    a skip in the record,

  • poems
    Building’s Eye
    I Live
    Immobilising Movement
    The Silent Sounds

  • edition #003
    portrait of us eating fish