Author Archives: colinhopkirk

Water holds the sky where herons stalk eels. Stately assassins inch through flooded fields in slowest motion, until the kill, the stabbing blade, a speed-blur you never see, and never will until it is too late.

Leveret Press is a publishing venture run by fellow writers Philip Dunn and Sue Wallace. Keep watch here for a new publication around Easter 2020, featuring my favourite Welshman, Vernon Goddard, and lucky me. No title yet. Something will emerge, it always does. Good wishes. Keep writing.

By the time I hear Go! she is already gone, into the water, which closes around her, welcomes her in. Released, at last, yards down her lane, she is changed. In her element, flowing, so practised it seems effortless, natural, both girl and seal, a new creature, beyond me. She makes her kick-turn, nails itContinue reading “Watching my daughter swim.”

This is my first post. This blog will talk, sometimes meanderingly, about writing, especially poetry; about my work, poets I admire, raising questions about writing and art. I hope you find something useful here, if only to disagree with my stuff and sharpen your own thinking. Writing, for me, Is work. For those of usContinue reading “Writing”

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