Great Regulars: Pat Jourdan is a Liverpool-born poet

and painter with an Irish-Catholic background. This poem, taken from her excellent pamphlet The Cast-Iron Shore (erbacce-press, Liverpool) does indeed have a painterly quality to it--the half-open doorways, the empty kitchen with its dripping tap, the crockery, all seem images from a stilllife.

from Carol Ann Duffy: The Daily Mirror: Poetry Corner

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