cally conan-davies

Able Muse Pushcart Prize 2009 Nominations

I am pleased to announce that the following five poems and one story that appeared in the current and previous issues of Able Muse have been nominated for Pushcart Prize 2009 —

Poetry:

Dark Gardens

Dark Gardens

For V.W.

For V.W.

Birds
speak
Greek
words,
woe
sings
things
low.
Love
ends.
A dove
descends.

Water
caught her.

Cally Conan-Davies

Cally Conan-Davies is a scholar and teacher who has researched and written widely on  D.H. Lawrence and Depth Psychology. She is a practising Bibliotherapist, and runs her own Adult Education business which aims to keep literature and the arts at the heart of community life. Cally lives on the road, by her heart.

Able Muse's Best of the Net nominations

I am pleased to announce that the following six poems and two stories that appeared in the current and previous issues of Able Muse have been nominated for Best of the Net —

Poetry:

Cally Conan-Davies

Cally Conan-Davies learnt a lot as a labourer, dancer, dairy farmer, model, beachcomber. She did not learn what she expected to from her time in academia, where she specialised in Modernism and Depth Psychology. She learnt most of all from mothering her daughter. Now she writes, practises bibliotherapy, and gives private tuition to  under/post-graduate students. She’s still dancing, and loves the sea,  spending as much time as she can in water – where she learns a lot.

The Great Ocean Road

The Great Ocean Road

A hot-wired spirit sparking in the rain,
you jolted me to life, unfroze my heart,
and all my tangled currents you'd explain
as if you read my bathymetric chart.
We ran with leaf-shaped boards into the sea,
birds wheeling, wave noise tossing up white spray;
I dived, holding your breath, and learnt to breathe
on southern coasts where fire and water play.

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