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Tory Campbell - Sakura

from A Silent War by Ross Thompson And Others

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Written by Ross Thompson

Read by Tory Campbell

Tory Campbell lives in Belfast. She has poems published in The Stinging Fly, The Irish Independent, The Honest Ulsterman, Lagan Online, Coast to Coast To Coast and local anthologies.

Tory was shortlisted for the 2012 Hennessy Literary Award for Emerging Poetry and was highly commended in the 2014 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award. She came second place for the All Ulster Poetry Slam in 2016. In 2017, Tory was chosen as one of the Lagan Press 12NOW up-and-coming New Original Writers, and also was longlisted for the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing. She was awarded "Most Promising Writer" at the 2018 Mairtin Crawford Awards, winning a bursary at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre.

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A cherry blossom at the bottom of your street
has wept, casting petals, said to be edible,

onto rain-soaked tarmac, flavouring newly fresh
air with vanilla tobacco of sweet meadow.

Confetti the colour of pink coral now lies
beneath your feet: a sign that you are still alive.

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from A Silent War, released May 29, 2020

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Ross Thompson Bangor, UK

Northern Irish writer.

Debut collection Threading The Light available now from Dedalus Press.

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