Ivy Bannister
Ivy Bannister has published a volume of short stories, Magician, and a memoir, Blunt Trauma. In the UK, her poems have appeared in Acumen, Orbis, Folio, Magma and Mslexia. Her poems have been published widely in Ireland, where her favourite small magazine is THE SHOp. Awards for her poems include the Kent and Sussex Open and Listowel, Best Short Collection. Current projects are a novel and a play. Born in New York City, she has lived in Dublin since 1970.
Was published in -
Ukraine and Other Poems
Poetry Anthology
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Format: Demy
90 Pages
ISBN: 9781905599-38-7
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Ukraine and Other Poems -
there is an old soviet train
running through communities
of communist orchards
and the family planters
remain towns away
bussing each day
to plough and tow
the potato
the seed….
Extract from winning entry ‘Ukraine’ by Julie Bolitho-Lee
Ukraine and Other Poems contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books Spring 2007 Poetry Competition. No fewer that twenty-nine triumphant verses about elderly fruit pickers and disappointing aunts, stolen daffodils and red dresses and every other topic in between nestle within these covers.
