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This Moment

There was this moment
at a height in Perugia
with the stone wall
balancing my bottled water
while I placed one hand
to rest, palm-down,
and felt a warmth so sudden
that I lay my arm along it
to the elbow in a fusion
of well-being, gazing out
across the roof-tiles’
heated terracotta
to the mountain range
which wrapped its arm
around my vision
as a campanile in the middle-
distance sounded
with an incidental note
and everything was,
for this moment, whole.

John Mole

A private celebration with poetry and music in memory of  Harry Chambers 1937-2012  will be held in London on Saturday 22nd June 2013. Hannah & Elizabeth have tried to contact Harry’s close friends and colleagues but if we have missed you please contact us for further details: publisher@peterloopoets.com   Harry Chambers 15th July 1937 - 14th September 2012

Harry Chambers
1937 - 2012

‘For three decades and more, Harry Chambers, the Publishing Director of Peterloo Poets, has been one of the great "hearers and hearteners" of the work being done in British and Irish poetry. Peterloo Poets, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2006, is a publishing house that has earned the trust of readers and writers alike; it has managed to keep the art in touch with its traditions and alive to its possibilities.'
Seamus Heaney

Stella Davis
Last Boat to Avalon

F.J. Williams
Reading Lesson in the Lifers’ Wing

Updated 28/09/2012 19:00

Keith Chandler
The English Civil War Part 2

Diana Hendry
Late Love & Other Whodunnits