Bio

Wendy Everett is a former academic, now full-time poet, who divides her time between Bath (UK), and Chania (Crete), where she runs the Chania International Poetry Group and, in September 2019, organised the first ever Chania International Poetry Festival. She has published poems in the UK, France, and Greece in journals including The Canon's Mouth, Southbank Poetry Magazine, Artemispoetry, Orbis, and The French Literary Review. In September 2020, she released her first collection of poems, on the corner of Mastoraki (published in a bilingual English/Greek edition by Ekdoseis Radamanthys).

then

in
the stone
forest of
Notre Dame, slanting
light wove bluebells and red campions
through the space like birdsong, so you had to be still to
listen to the colours

but fire raged wild and without pity through the ancient forest
and in the morning bitter teardrops of lead wept our sadness

yet the medieval
glass survives to stain the future with its radiance
and others too will, in their turn,
stand and wonder at
the vivid
lustre
of

now