Rachel Bower is an award-winning writer from Bradford. She is the author of two poetry collections (These Mothers of Gods and Moon Milk) and a book on literary letters. She is currently writing a collection of poems about endangered insects. Rachel’s poems and stories have been widely published in literary magazines, including The White Review, Magma and Stand. She won The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2019/20 and the W&A Short Story Competition 2020. Rachel facilitates workshops for a wide range of people and organisations and her work is represented by Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown.
Twitter: @rachelebower
Website: rachelbower.net
June Gap*
it sounds like a throng of bees
fizzing in the purple geraniums of your border
but the truth is not always how it sounds
cover crops of white clover phacelia
yellow mustard dropped
meadows lopped old pippin chopped
while that bristle of wings
starve their way into June
Rachel Bower
*The June Gap is a period of a sudden and significant reduction in the availability of pollen and nectar for honeybees in the UK: a phenomenon of recent decades.
Rachel’s latest collection, These Mothers of Gods, is available from Fly on the Wall Press. Click the cover for details.
