Bio

Andy’s official website is www. onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com

Andy N is the author of four full length poetry collections, the most recent being ‘The Streets were all we could see’.

He is the host / co-host of various Podcast series including ‘Spoken Label’, ‘Reading in Bed’ and ‘Comics Unity’.

He also does music under the name of Ocean in a Bottle and co-hosts with Steve Smythe and Amanda Steel, Stretford’s always welcoming Open Mic Literature night ‘Speak Easy’.

Isolation in Spring

by Andy N

Monday 25th May 2020 6:35 pm

Those notes of silence in isolation in Spring
Carry further at night-time more than in the day
with the flowers blowing in the breeze
and the trees outside rustling in the court-yard
their beauty thickened from neglect.

Imaginary fowls that you would see in the fields
And the return of the birds once again
From their endless trawl down South
Are now closed like confessionals in churches
Dulling in the distance with everything seen,

Glittering in your imagination 
Across neighbour’s houses behind the communal bins
Moss green in your memory with uncertainty
Edged in your memories of the way it was
Catching glimpses of the past tied up in the future.

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Andy is currently reading/listening to poems by Phillip Larkin, his favourite so far is Trees. Click on the link below to listen to Larkin reading his own poem.

The Trees