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Rosemary Appleton

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I enjoy the way a poem can offer a compressed insight into a significant time. I often write about people's unguarded moments—their pauses for epiphanies, maybe, or for calm.

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  • Anatomy Lesson

    In December 1650, Thomas Willis and William Perry were surprised to discover that the felon whose corpse they had claimed for dissection in Petty’s rooms on Oxford’s High Street could be resuscitated. / They are, all three, still: / She lies prone on the dining table
  • Mrs Ellen Allen

    She learnt, slowly, to ignore the bulbs / which rolled, unannounced, out of newspaper / the bare pots leaving watermarks
  • School Trip

    This way, girls! / Miss Jones waves her umbrella / on the way to the Tube - it is
  • Stained Glass

    A blood pin-prick splayed between glass / He leans towards it, breath licked in tight / Mr Hutton drones on
  • Three Common Faults in Photographs

    1. Someone missing from group / I would put you – there – / in the plastic chair at the bedside
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