Check out this amazing, award winning poet, Jude Nutter.
Darkness outside. Inside, the radio’s prayer— Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finistere. Carol Ann Duffy There are storms walking the waters of Viking and Utsire, and gale-force winds from FitzRoy to Shann…
Source: The Shipping Forecast
The Shipping Forecast – Poem Share
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That was a few moments plunged into another life – that is a breath-taking poem. Thanks for sharing!
And that’s an excellent description of it. It is phenomenal poetry…you are welcome 🙂
WOW! That was amazing! I love the interplay of water metaphors with approaching death experienced at her mother’s side.
Joan, I loved the metaphors also. It is just incredible poetry 🙂
The everyday shipping forecast transmission from BBC Radio 4 to mariners, ungilded by beautifully rendered poetry, is also beautifully rendered poetry.
This is an amazing poem for sure.
Jude was born in England. As is for many British people, the BBC shipping forecast is the lilt of the sea.
Yeah, through the outstanding imagery of this poem, I got a real sense of the sea storm, the cold, the fishing life. I love the work and need to go back and read it again.