Helena Nelson runs HappenStance Press in the small hours and at the weekends. By day she teaches Communication and English at Adam Smith College, Fife. She is both poet and critic. Her book-length collection is Starlight on Water, Rialto, 2003 and her more frivolous pamphlet is Unsuitable Poems, 2005, HappenStance.
Work
Born in the dark
shimmering, pure,
it wakes you at dawn.
Everything else is dirty beside it—
the swings, the play-park, the shoddy gardens.
Cold in its beauty, its calculation,
work shines clean.
Driven honour, harder than love.
Begin, begin.
The other September readers are:
Michael Schmidt
Dorothy Baird
Charlotte Runcie
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