Saturday, 7 January 2023

One Lipogrammatic Cinquain poem by Richard Skinner





Lavender (remix)

Lavandula angustifolia

 

Vials

of salvia,

vita nuova avails

Ionian gold, vigils of

naiads.


* lipogrammatic cinquain poem




Richard Skinner has published four books of poems with Smokestack. His most recent book is Dream into Play (Poetry Salzburg, 2022). His next collection, White Noise Machine, is coming out with Salt in June 2023. Richard is Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy. He also runs a small press, VanguardEditions, was the co-editor of Magma 80 and is the current editor of 14 magazine.

 


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