Retired Park

Abbie Madigan


caramel trees stutter on the Japanese proverbs:

swaying in the broken English sunshine before the

massacre of the third season.

A sign hidden in the moss

“Do not climb”


Abbie Madigan is the world’s greatest pre-posthumous poet and a beleaguered civil servant. Somewhere in the North of England. Of childbearing age. Unpublished – until now.