Walking My Name Back Home

My 2012 poem “Walking My Name Back Home,” set in Cornwall, appears today in the Secular Heretic. The poem, which takes its form from Dylan Thomas’s “Poem In October,” wonders about where one’s belonging lies, as it wanders, bearing my Cornish name, along the North Cornish coast. My father’s people left Cornwall in the late 1840s, Cornish tin miners and Methodists, to try their hands at Antipodean gold. As I walked between villages, Trevigue and others, I wondered how much of me still came from the places my name came from. Thanks to Asa Boxer for publishing this poem. You’ll find it in my next collection of poems, Walking Underwater, out early December 2020 (Pitt Street Poetry).

https://thesecularheretic.com/poem-in-april-walking-my-name-back-home/