Rosemary Drescher
Rosemary Drescher is an Australian/British poet who was born in Sydney, grew up in Tarawa (Republic of Kiribati), Fiji and the UK and lived for over 20 years in Germany. Her exposure to different languages in childhood, at school and university shaped her love of poetry. Since the 1990s she has published a body of work in journals, anthologies and online, and has read at events and festivals. She now lives in Northwest England since retiring from biomedical research administration and is embracing her vocation as a poet and rep for the Lancaster (UK) Stanza, as well as becoming a grandmother to two lively boys.
This poem is taken from Rosemary Drescher’s recent poetry collection ‘The Sun is a Heart Far Off’, published in January…
Rapunzel is an octogenarian, hair thinning, pottering in her tower. From the window she watches the traffic pass, the children…
Her knitting, now, is a pattern of absences, words unhooking like laddering stitches. She’s as light as a cake of…
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