Sel Whiteley : Writing

A Miracle of Music

A Miracle of Music

A Poem by Sel Whiteley


for Tomas Murray I I recall that first time I heard you play, four years ago; the proclamation hung above our Living Room hearth. There we..
The Great Hunger

The Great Hunger

A Poem by Sel Whiteley


She is the land and doesn’t want to see them go, young men, afraid, of unknown shores. But the potato crop has failed and Irel..
Dryad

Dryad

A Poem by Sel Whiteley


Portrait of a Heroin Addict
Falls Road

Falls Road

A Poem by Sel Whiteley


Bereft of two brothers and one fiancé, she passed their photos to me. In a roija wine soliloquy, their stories were transformed to No..
Rhapsody of Leaves

Rhapsody of Leaves

A Poem by Sel Whiteley


Throughout your fifteenth year, you dreamed each house a fold in concertina streets of city and wished for the wind that would make every twis..
A Small Earthquake in Chile.

A Small Earthquake in Chile.

A Poem by Sel Whiteley


A Small Earthquake in Chile. Not many dead
All that is Left

All that is Left

A Poem by Sel Whiteley


Likelost breath in August residue, I was a dream when conscript leafleteers, swayed,serene as summer elms. Soldiers burnt their typecast..
Little Ireland, Liverpool, 1989

Little Ireland, Liverpool, 1989

A Poem by Sel Whiteley


There where limestone levees swept flotsam into squalid streets and old men stacked cargo, like years, against the wind, you stood, fifteen-..

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