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The Shipping Forecast – Poem Share

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…
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  1. WOW! That was amazing! I love the interplay of water metaphors with approaching death experienced at her mother’s side.

  2. The everyday shipping forecast transmission from BBC Radio 4 to mariners, ungilded by beautifully rendered poetry, is also beautifully rendered poetry.

    • 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.

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