Bio
Jim Conwell's parents were economic migrants from the rural west of Ireland and he was born, and has lived most of this life, in various parts of London. He has had poems published in various magazines including The Frogmore Papers, The High Window, The Interpreter's House, The Journal, The Lampeter Review and The Ogham Stone and has had two poems shortlisted in the Bridport Poetry Prize.
Jim Conwell
Falling
Something pushed inside and held there,
so that breathing becomes shallow and frightened.
And then it moves slowly further in
when you so want it to stop.
There is a cry "Mu-mee".
It falls away inside from the high place
where it has been dislodged.
It will fall forever now.
Out there, in the miles which lie behind you,
Something has turned.
And now it is coming back, carrying all before it,
gathering everything in its path and hurling it this way.