Marina Sánchez

London UK

She is a Latinx mix of Native American/Spanish/British living in London. She is an award-winning poet and translator, widely published in literary journals. Her poems have been placed in national and international competitions and then anthologised.

Her pamphlet Dragon Child (Acumen, 2014), was Book of the Month in the poetry kit website. It was also featured in the British Library’s The Hidden surprises of Poetry Pamphlets Event with Gemma Meek (3 June 2019).

Some of her poems are included in the first Latinx anthology published in the UK, Un Nuevo Sol (flipped eye). 

 

Poem written 27th June 2020

 

A Garden Catalogue of Loss Since Lockdown

 

March

I buy your favourite purple crocuses

to show you winter was really going

Then your ‘daffadowndillies’ flower

how you remember the poem from school

                                           Still you couldn’t come home

April

Slender pink spears fill up the sky

the magnolia’s opening white in the cold wind

You’ve been here every spring since

we planted it and now it’s as tall as the house

                                            Still you couldn’t come home

May

Californian poppies shine orange and yellow

inviting bees to revel in their hearts

The magnolia has greened and shadows

the arum lilies while the roses’ heads are bowed

                                            Still you couldn’t come home

June

The Summer Solstice has passed

You’re missing the foxgloves  roses  Jasmin

On the phone and on the screen we cry, waiting

thorough the rhythm of indifferent seasons.