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Pete Turpie grew up in Northumberland, England. He studied History of Art and English Literature at Manchester and Open University. Pete worked in Further Education management for almost 30 years. Writing under the pen-name 'Alan Wickes', his poetry has been published extensively in the UK, North America and Australia, appearing in Aesthetica, Znine, Worm, Loch Raven Review, The Chimera, Envoi, The Raintown Review and Angle. His sonnets have won Ware Poets national competition twice, in 2004 and 2009. Cannon Poets awarded first prize to his poem "Parting Shots" in November 2006. In November 2007 his chapbook Prospero at Breakfast was published by Modern Metrics. His work has featured in anthologies and he is included on 'The Hypertexts' site as a spotlight poet. In 2012 the sonnet sequence 'Nighthawks' was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Pete retired in 2012 and has recently completed an M.A. in Humanities with the University of Derby. In the longer term he is looking forward to travelling more extensively, enjoying family life and to have more time to further develop his writing.

Monday, 10 August 2015

Flowers in August

Posted this to FB last night - trying to wake the Muse by whispering a triolet in her ear. Five people liked it, the usual New Formalist suspects.

Prior to retiring, the first three weeks of August was the time squeezed between 'Staff Development Week' and A level results day when we could have a family holiday. Consequently I have never been at home at this time for the past twenty years. I wrote this today as an apology to our garden; I discovered this year while I was at at home, that it just went on flowering anyway, whether we were there or not.

Flowers in August

Unseen the flowers of August bloomed.
Through all the summers we sought the sun
we missed our garden’s glory. Doomed
astilbes flourished, then were gone,
unseen the flowers of August bloomed.
Returning, cursed the uncut lawn -
unseen the flowers of August bloomed
through all the summers we sought the sun.







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