Deborah Tyler-Bennett is a European poet and fiction writer, with nine books and chapbooks of poetry published by various presses including Smokestack and Shoestring.
Her most recent chapbook being Servants and Labourers (Time/ Place/ Memory, 2022). She regularly performs her work.
Uncharted Constellations Contribution
‘Yuri Gagarin in Dublin’ touches on the less glamorous reality of life back on Earth for prominent Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin. Here’s an snippet:
It seems some dreams take on reality,
Gagarin dropped in Dublin by the fates:
hinting of earth-tied man’s mortality;
a brackish Liffey plashes behind eyes
spilling planets as dull waters rise.
Listen to Deborah Tyler-Bennett read ‘Yuri Gagarin in Dublin’ here:
Bark & Bone Contribution
‘Rook Land’ captures the fierce joy of an adolescence spent birdwatching. Here’s an extract:
Pub trips were out.
The warehouse job went next.
They wanted someone at the Forest Cafe Shop.
Now number-crunching starts through the big window,
instinct feels them muster, saved until takings logged.
The boss asks why I came, such ‘waste of that degree’.
Other Publications Include:
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