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Lorna Callery

Lorna Callery is an artist, writer and educator who has a keen interest in concrete and site-specific poetry, visual art and performance. Projects include Polka Dot Punks (2011-2012), a pop-up art gallery in and around Glasgow. Born in Scotland, she has performed in various locations and in many forms including as a statue in Buchanan Street, as a blob of black ink in the Saundhaus nightclub, and as a ‘regular skint poet’ at various events in Glasgow and beyond.

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Pigeon with Warburtons

dead still

no nervous skull-shakes
or scuttle-pecks

still

hiding in doorway shadows
as sun slides
like a drunkard
down dull bricks

head still

a single slice of bread
hollowed out by hunger

a noose of brown wholemeal
round its stretched neck

still

waiting for the rain
to disintegrate this frame
                                           or

step out
                                           be spotted

by twelve
                dirt yellow
                                hungry beaks




‘Pigeon with Warburtons’ © Lorna Callery. ‘Pigeon with Warburtons’ first published in New Writing Scotland 30, edited by Carl MacDougall and Zoë Strachan (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2012). ‘ 

Watch Lorna Callery read her work, including 'Pigeon With Warburtons'.

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