Tees Valley Writers

Annie Wright

Annie Wright is a poet and experienced workshop leader. Annie's hot first pamphlet collection Including Sex was published by The Bay Press in 1995. An original and scrupulous writer, her work is rich in sexual lyricism. The poems are sensual, and often frankly sexual, full of taut phrases and energetic explosions of imagery. Her long awaited first full collection Redemption Songs from Arrowhead Press, published April 2003, was described by Fred D'Aguiar as "unabashedly erotic". She is literacy consultant to Darlington LEA's primary schools and loves working with teachers and children on effective ways to develop and improve their creative writing. An experienced workshop leader, Annie has led writing sessions with writers aged four to seventy plus! Her current obsessions are with the interplay between art, sculpture, landscape and male/female relationships.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Redemption Songs (Arrowhead 2003)
Including Sex (The Bay Press 1995)

Poems in various magazines and anthologies in the UK and USA.

 

 

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Orinoco Lilies

(The flowers from the North had their mouths open,
and if touched they laughed ... from Navaho myth)

Jaguar's wet nose hesitates
whisker sensing a leaf
I hold my shivery breath

mouse runs tiptoe
over my lip
and petals tremble

a shimmering peal
of giggles erupts
in squeals

I parrot the parrot's
red and yellow squawks
feathers set me off

in staccato guffaws, macaw
of scattering, spattering
seeds of mirth

oh hilarity's clarity!
blue as the high canopy
cut-outs of heaven

belly-deep, the Orinoco's
rumble judders the spine
drills through rocks

tears coursing down cheeks
clutching our stomachs
howler monkeys

we snap our traps
on flies and mosquito
clamp grins with chimpish lips

jaws spring apart
chattering laughter
surges out

wobbling chins
heaving sepals
rippling green umbrellas

sending our Northern spirits
swooping and gliding over
unquenchable chuckling thermals

© Annie Wright

 

 

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