For Peter When all’s said and done we plant our feet in the earth for as long as the earth will have us. Nothing’s a given. Whether in time we grow a few inches thick or tower in a shock of whisking leaves no one knows.
By degrees we learn the ways to cope with loss each year and are the stronger for it. Our crowning glory will be that despite the agony and fear we bore the fruit of hope. Kevin Graham's first collection, The Lookout Post, was published by Gallery Press in 2023.
It was shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize and won the Southword Debut Poetry Collection Award.
