Geraldine Green is a creative writing tutor, editor and poet, with three poetry collections (Indigo Dreams Publishing) and four chapbooks. Her work is widely anthologised in the UK and USA.
As well as readings, workshops and a residential at Brantwood, this autumn sees her reading at two festivals: Borderlines Festival in Carlisle and the Kendal Mountain Literature Festival. In 2011 she gained a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. Geraldine is writer-in-residence at the Quaker Tapestry Museum, Kendal. She was born, and still lives, in Cumbria with her husband Geoff and their Border collie, Roy.
She blogs at Salt Road
Polar
ice caps ice of north
& south re froze
just as the proph
ets fore
told and indeed
it did come
to pass that
those who
like
polar bears
turtles in their tangled
shells and feathered things in
their dreams re
told their
tale to
the next
gen er a tion
and in
deed it
d i d c o m e
to
p
a
s
s
that
the earth rotated around the sun in seven long years of fire and storms
but never a g a i n
did pla ne t e a r t h
freeze as solid as it did back then when humans roamed and the earth quaked before
the great storm –
as foretold –
hit them.
and it came to pass that
inside each globular molecule of earthstar a
mother species was formed was
re formed &
spilled guts inside a feathered dream.
Geraldine Green
Stained Glass by Geraldine Green
