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Haworth Hodgkinson


Haworth Hodgkinson

Born in Lancashire and resident in North-East Scotland for twenty years, Haworth Hodgkinson is best known as a poet, but he also writes short stories and is involved in music and theatre.

His poetry chapbook A Weakness for Mermaids was published by Koo Press in 2007 and reprinted in 2011.

Poetry by Haworth Hodgkinson has also appeared in Storm, Pushing Out the Boat, The Broken Fiddle, Breaking New Ground, New Writing Scotland, Spinners and Spoons, Sex in the City and There's a Poem in My Soup, as well as on the Dead Good Poets and Spring Tides websites.

In addition to performing as a poet and musician with the Blue Salt Collective, Haworth Hodgkinson is the Founder and Director of North-East Scotland's New Words festival.

See www.haworthhodgkinson.co.uk for more about Haworth Hodgkinson.


Paradise Recalled

Haworth Hodgkinson

There are no apples
on the trees
in the garden
today.

Adam has had them removed,
concerned at the effect
they were having
on his wife.

Analysis by orchard scientists
has revealed traces of cyanide
but a local rumour
talks of serpent venom.

Anyone who has picked apples
from the trees
in the garden
of late

is advised to return them,
no questions asked.

Published in There's a Poem in My Soup, 2007
(Koo Press)



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