Alison Brackenbury’s Selected Poems, Gallop, was published in 2019 by Carcanet. New poems can be read on her website:
Along the Road
In Sussex, late
from the last bus
driving deep woods at night
I saw the stag
trot headlamps’ beam
rut in his blood
antlered by light.
Alison Brackenbury
Published in ‘The Rialto and ‘For the Silent’, Indigo Dreams, 2019