Bio

Diane Jackman's poetry has appeared in The Rialto, Outposts, Story (Happenstance Press) and many anthologies and magazines. Winner of Liverpool Poetry Festival 2006, Deddington Festival 2014 and Norfolk Prize in Café Writers’ competition 2014. Other works include the libretto for "Pinocchio" for the Kings' Singers/LSO, seven children's books, translated into several languages, children’s stories and choral lyrics.

She has just completed Lessons from the Orchard, poems exploring her childhood on a farm in the English Midlands.

Ebb
tide
along
the shoreline,
dipping orange bills
a parcel of oystercatchers
fossicking for cockles deep in furrows of wet sand.