LIVERPOOL POETS 2008
Liz Ashworth
Liz was writing in Liverpool in the sixties, while living with her then husband the painter Maurice Cockrill, in Huskisson Street. Her early Liverpool poetry appeared in Transatlantic Review, and she performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 'happenings' with Adrian Henri and The Liverpool Scene.
Her poem 'Sefton Park Lark' is included in her Outposts booklet A New Confusion, which won the Poetry Society's Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize. She now lives in north Wales where she writes, paints and teaches, and publishes poetry, journalism and fiction.
Sefton Park Lark
Sometimes I want to look up and see
Something terribly amazing
Like
Someone wide open and candid with me
And glad to be candid
And frank and honest
Instead of that just now
I look up and see
One of the fishers
With a green umbrella over his catch
A terribly amazing blue green!
Discordant with our regular
Leaf sap and sage
Anyone wishing to contact Liz can do so through emma.jackson@linuxmail.org
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