Poetry

Patrick James Errington is the author of two chapbooks, Glean (2018) and Field Studies (2019), and his work has been anthologized in Best New Poets and Best New British and Irish Poets. A recipient of the 2020 Callan Gordon Award from the Scottish Book Trust, he is from Alberta, Canada, and lives in Edinburgh, where he is a teaching and research fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

Not an Elegy

by Patrick James Errington
You are dead and the dead are very patient.
— Jack Spicer, from After Lorca

Thank fuck there’s still a little weather left. Snow,
Which means you don’t have to talk about it, means
Despite itself, no poems needed. That said, outside

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