Mary Evans - Poems and Pictures

Picture 11078959, early 20^th century illustration, image copyright Mary Evans / Retrograph Collection

Winter in Prussia
by Anna Kisby

after Bhanu Kapil

my grandmother

carries

forgotten German

in her body

in her pottery

on the sideboard

in her lips

that quaver

before they speak

words packed

in sawdust

for the crossing

my grandmother

carries the memory

of German

in apple slices

dipped in slopes

of white sugar

in her fur

that remembers

dining with wolves

forgotten languages

hail from

my grandmotherâ€™s feet

in tap shoes

tied with black ribbons

umlauts

are beauty spots

marked on the scarp

of a cheekbone

my grandmother

carries a memory

of ice breaking upriver

that has nothing

to do with

the Thames

Â© Anna Kisby

Picture 11078959, early 20^th century illustration, image copyright Mary Evans / Retrograph Collection

Anna Kisby is a poet, archivist and author of the pamphletÂ All the Naked DaughtersÂ (Against the Grain Press, 2017) and anthologyÂ Sea Between Us (Nine Pens, 2022). She won the Binsted Prize 2019, the BBC Proms Poetry Prize 2016 and was commended in the Faber New Poets Scheme.Â She has tutored a Poetry School course on writing from historical sources, and is co-author of Creative Histories of Witchcraft (Cambridge University Press, 2022).Â Originally from London, she lives in Devon, UK.

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