Rebecca Goss
Stars in a Field
I have asked for this county
to soften in you
your marrow to swim
with its flint and barley
that you learn villages
and their stiles
sense the shadows
of churches
want stars in a field
bend to its soils
black and alluvial
swallow all the coasts
salt in our kisses
close a cottage door
stay with me behind it
Rebecca Goss is a poet and mentor, living in Suffolk. She is the author of three full-length collections and two pamphlets. Her second collection, Her Birth
(Carcanet/Northern House, 2013), was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection, won the Poetry category in the East Anglian Book Awards 2013, and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing and the Portico Prize for Literature. Rebecca’s third full-length collection, Girl, was published with Carcanet/Northern House in 2019 and shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2019. She is winner of the Sylvia Plath Prize 2022.
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