Angela Kirby

Angela Kirby

Angela Kirby was born in rural Lancashire in 1932 but now lives in London. Her widely published poems have won prizes and commendation in several major competitions, and are translated into Rumanian. Shoestring Press publish her six collections. Her sixth collection...
Angela Kirby

Angela Kirby

Lancashire-born Angela Kirby now lives in London. Her poems are widely published. Shoestring Press published her five collections and a sixth is due in 2022.     Poems by Angela Kirby for morphrog23 On a Wet Afternoon in Co Cork In Defence of Men Remembering...
Angela Kirby

Angela Kirby

THE SCARLET LAVATORY It was difficult to find the right wordsnone of the books or the magazinewere any help, so in the end she said good luck, which seemed somehow, unsuitable, while heequally at a loss, said nothingbut as if she had imagined the eighteen years and...
Angela Kirby

Angela Kirby

DATA COLLECTION (or Chaffinches at Isfield)   Some twenty yards ahead of me, this pot-holed lane veers left, trailing off into a gravelled track which disappears behind an elderberry tree. To my right an oak greens up for spring, verges thicken with emerging...