Bellbird Hill

Paul Munden

Bellbird Hill

 
 
Sheets of rain. Invisible bends. Windscreen wipers thump with your heart. Somewhere soon, the turning to the farm . . . . A thick bolt of lightning unzips the sky and there—the broken white line of the road between your shoulder blades. You listen to bird calls as you wait for the first tremor. Your cotton dress clings to your thighs. Tarmac ripples. Who was it that told on you?

Paul Munden has published five collections, most recently Chromatic (UWAP, 2017). He was director of Poetry on the Move, 2015-17, and director of the UK’s National Association of Writers in Education, 1994-2018. He has worked as conference poet for the British Council, reader for Stanley Kubrick, and script editor for GSP Studios. He is co-editor with Nessa O’Mahony of Metamorphic: 21st century poets respond to Ovid (Recent Work Press, 2017).