Marie Marshall

I have received two complimentary copies of magazines today, each of which features poetry of mine. The first is issue 60 of Smoke, a magazine produced in Liverpool by the Windows Project, Liver House, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4HY. They have published my poem I hate all flowers, which is a lithopoema I wrote in 2010. [By the way, for those of you who are not familiar with the city of Liverpool, although the city’s prefix is pronounced as in the bodily organ, such places as ‘Liver House’ are pronounced ‘lie-vur’ – just saying.]

The second magazine is issue 37 of THE SHOp, a magazine published in Ireland, which features a 2011 poem of mine simply entitled End. Editorial address of THE SHOp is Skeagh, Schull, Co. Cork, Ireland. [Another ‘by the way’: I believe the word ‘skeagh’ is Irish for a thorn bush, and ‘Schull’ derives from the word ‘scoil’ meaning a school, the latter being very similar in Scottish Gaelic. Correct me if I’m wrong…]