We Play Here by Dawn Watson Linda Black She has been Poet in

She has been Poet in Residence for Open Garden Squares at various London locations and was a finalist in the Poetry Rivals National Slam 2015

Miroslav Holub and Vasko Popa

funerals and furloughs

blissing in sudden spiritual moments

The poems cast light backwards

We Play Here by Dawn Watson Linda Black She has been Poet inWe Play Here is a collection of four poem stories, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast in the summer of 1988, against a background of political turbulence during the Troubles. Written from the perspectives of four female friends in the months between finishing primary school and starting high school, the girls inhabit an eerie, elemental landscape of normalised violence, poverty and neglect. This is a lyrical and