Biography:

The recent publication of access to the silence (Poems and Posters
1984-2004) following the republication of Intimate Voices (Poems 1965-83) – both from Etruscan Press Devon – means Tom Leonard’s collected poems of 40 years is now available in two volumes. He teaches Creative Writing part-time at Glasgow University.

Our other featured artists:

Dorothy Alexander
Colin Clark
Tom Leonard
Peter Manson
Nick-e Melville
(*) of the month

The Pact

I have to discover
who

I'm talking to,
the residue

of this present less
the present questioning :

what borrowed
from the memory

addresses itself;
the memory

undisturbed for years
a subject-object

relationship:
a sentence at last

a sentence with a silence in it
- and at the end of it