Sarah Doyle is the Pre-Raphaelite Society’s Poet-in-Residence. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway College, University of London, and has been published widely in magazines, journals and anthologies. She won first prize in the WoLF Poetry Competition and Holland Park Press’s Brexit in Poetry 2019; was a runner-up in the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize 2019; and was highly commended in the Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry and in the Best Single Poem category of the Forward Prizes 2018. She is (with Allen Ashley) co-editor of Humanagerie, an anthology of animal-inspired poetry and fiction, published by Eibonvale Press in 2018. Sarah is currently researching a PhD in the poetics of meteorology at Birmingham City University.
Via-Vulpes
street-fox is
brindle-backed beggar
omnivorous opportunist
singer of street-songs sodium lit
disdainer of dogs
big-town barker
shitter of garden-shingle shit
street-fox is
switch-tail swagger
flash-harry-feral
shifty smoothy shed invader
vagabond-venal
bin-bag bandit
take-away detritus raider
street-fox is
cautious cartography
city-savvy
private pavement pitter-patter
finders-forager
roughneck riff-raff
champion charmer chat-up chatter
street-fox is
canal-bank-carnal
vulnerable-vicious
predator prey pest player
rusty robber
fighter and fucker
stinker stalker long-term-stayer
street-fox is
Sarah Doyle