Will Eaves

Not since I was four or five at mostand in the first of many striped tee-shirtshave I been this close to the flavour of safety.I’m walking into town again, the child of hills.You bought me fish and chips for lunch, my ownadult portion because I asked for it, in Evans’stiled restaurant, the Alhambra of takeaways. ... (read more)

If I were to write down a listof everything I miss I’d missthe most important thing,an irregular pearl. Not gifts –books on corvids, Wild Lone,‘Ballad of Gordon, Alpha Cock,who clawed to death a foxand Bedlington terrier’ – or this ... (read more)

What’s missing from this floor? The furniture, but also the reason ... (read more)

The Captain’s keen to explore, go deeper, Take core samples, measure astronomical tilt. He says the clues are down there and the truth; Our forebears, numerously well-preserved, Point to the paradox of their success: death Learnt from them and wore a cunning face. We throng the younger layers of sediment, Lie curled in the embrace of great forests That overran new land, perished, grew back. A ... (read more)