Anna Starkey’s pamphlet was shortlisted in the Best Unpublished Pamphlet category for the Disabled Poets Prize 2024.
The winners were announced on 16 March 2024, during Deptford Literature Festival, in an online event.
Anna Starkey from All These Frequencies
© Anna Starkey 2024
all these
frequencies
lying suspended
between
ancient hawthorn and beech
releasing skin
into their knowing arms
slowedup humdown of midsummer
wraps me in audible activity
of tiny warmed bodies
or do I hear electromagnetic earth
contented cracklings of fields exchanging energies plainchant of as yet undiscovered forces
above me glints and hints
of incessant dancing
wildly different beings
animating layers of tree universes
in simultaneous deep and now time
all these frequencies
infusing me
with hopeful light-green leaf-light
til bones become branches