South Coast Poets Out Loud
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Season 6 features poems from 34-37 Degrees South Poetry Anthology for 2025 on the theme 'Words / No Words'.
Season 5 features poems shortlisted in the 2025 South Coast Writers Centre Awards as well as readings from Temple - the 2024 anthology of writing.
Season 3 features poets from the anthology 34-37 Degrees South - Signs 2024. Season 2 features poets shortlisted for the South Coast Writers Centre Poetry Awards 2024. Season 1 features poets from the anthology - 34-37 Degrees South - Country 2023.
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South Coast Poets Out Loud
A list of lists by Steve Meyrick
Steve Meyrick reads his poem 'A list of lists'
This poem appears in 34-37 Degrees South 2025 - An Anthology of Poetry from members of the South Coast Writers Centre.
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A List of Lists by Stephen Meyrick
A sequence—a catalogue or roll of things,
brought together for a purpose, or by chance.
A ship careening, capsize imminent—
the danger and the thrill of risking all.
A place for jousting, for knightly tournament
where skill and strength determined right.
A hem, the border of a garment, a strip
cut from different cloth—always on the edge.
An unsettling ambivalence: sometimes
the topmost rail, sometimes the column’s lowest part.
To cut away the sapwood, trim the waste:
who makes the choice of who gets left behind?
A half-rhyme, then—a lust; an inclination
or desire, an appetite unsatisfied. A shame.
And, once upon a time, a scar or wound,
an injury half-healed, a pain preserved.