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Deryn Rees-Jones
My Grandfather\'s Tattoo
My Grandfather\'s Tattoo
My Grandfather\'s Tattoo
On sunny days, his shirtsleeves rolledhe’d cover with a sticking plaster
like the wound of Welsh he wouldn’t give his children
the blue-green inks of anchorage, the shame.
© 2010, Deryn Rees-Jones
From: Poetry Review: Off the Page
Publisher: Poetry Review, London
From: Poetry Review: Off the Page
Publisher: Poetry Review, London
Deryn Rees-Jones
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1968)
Deryn Rees-Jones was born in Liverpool in 1968. She read English for her undergraduate and Masters degrees at the University of Wales, Bangor. Her anthology Modern Women Poets (Bloodaxe, 2005) was widely praised and followed on from her doctoral research at Birkbeck College, University of London. Presently, Rees-Jones teaches at the University of Liverpool and is the co-founder of its centre fo...
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My Grandfather\'s Tattoo
On sunny days, his shirtsleeves rolledhe’d cover with a sticking plaster
like the wound of Welsh he wouldn’t give his children
the blue-green inks of anchorage, the shame.
From: Poetry Review: Off the Page
My Grandfather\'s Tattoo
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