About Marion Clarke
Marion Clarke is a writer and artist from Warrenpoint, on the east coast of Northern Ireland. Earlier this year she won the Financial Times ‘Poet in the City’ haiku competition and was placed third in the Irish Haiku Society’s contest and Croatia’s Ivanić Grad Pumpkin Festival competition in 2014. In 2012 she received a Sakura award in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival contest. Her work is featured in the first national collection of haiku from Ireland - Bamboo Dreams as well as in international journals including Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, Modern Haiku and Haibun Today, as well as in London's Financial Times and Tokyo's The Mainichi. Some of Marion’s poetry and artwork can be found at http://seaviewwarrenpoint.wordpress.com/
Website: http://seaviewwarrenpoint.wordpress.com/
By Marion Clarke:
- beachcombing the detritus of us… . . .
- cold light another empty bottle promise . . .
- border attack . . . . . .
- on the mend . . . . . .
- final prognosis different clouds on the horizon&he . . .
- first encounter . . .
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- familiar tune my children’s voices above th . . .
- disused road roots resurfacing… . . .
- midday heat still ticking abandoned bicycle&hellip . . .
- unable to help myself rip tide… . . .