Lawrence Bradby
We had front seats
on the long coach trip to the capital
through hills that ramped down from high tors
and ramped back up. The whole way
we gazed straight ahead.
At our lodgings the landlord lent out of his kitchen window
to eulogise the view of lights pricking out
over the dark estuary: ‘used to be
Europe’s longest bridge’. Stood in the hallway,
each holding an overnight bag, we saw none of it.
Lawrence Bradby writes poems and short non-fiction prose texts and is a creative writing tutor with City Lit in London. Since October 2020, he and his family have lived in Portugal and he blogs about being a foreigner.
‘Shade’ won First Prize in the Briefly Write Poetry Prize 2025.
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