Author Archives: Quad

About Quad

The Stirred quad is formed of Rebecca Audra Smith, Anna Percy, Jasmine Chatfield and Lenni Sanders.

Resolution: Stop reading novels

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Quad

Over Christmas I re-read Jane Austen’s collection, which I have read far beyond ten times now I have it in the much more accessible form of Kindle. I have found reading on Kindle actually makes my reading pace slightly faster, … Continue reading →

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Maps

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Quad

(i)   * My curious fingers probed the smooth surface,   spun the globe on its axel, a coloured blur All blue yellow green made the world a sleek oval I could only graze over Not knowing, not travelled, Tongue … Continue reading →

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Light Travel

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Quad

Random musings on how light might travel between people, or how two people might energise light, musings really… * We’ve been flying from star to star Shunting between walls, light driven Luminous, fragile, disintegrating  * You have outshone the room … Continue reading →

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Prague Haiku

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Quad

Stag Party in Prague  * The one single man, on principle, refused the strippers. Sat; sketched water.

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Venice Sestina

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Quad

Rhyming sestina for Venice! * I have never known you in this city; you are untouched in Venice body unburied beneath my fingerprints, I’ve not mapped you through these maps, canals and streets entwine in my minds vision. Hotel Rialto, … Continue reading →

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Lanzarote

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Quad

The Never Visited Lanzarote * You want to take your camera, your wide angle lens shoot black sand in Lanzarote I want to snorkel for the first time burn into my retina the colours of fish, The names of which … Continue reading →

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Sonnet for France

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Quad

  We could catch the Eurostar, see the world glide past Like a swallow of white wine, rose shadows, Tipsy on travel, scenery sliding by in gulps Tiredness merging the countries together * We can create a sign language of … Continue reading →

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Amsterdam someday

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Quad

  Let’s rent love in canal boats Spend extra for candles, their solitary flames in the water, divers for pearls clutching at the inky flow, it passes through my fingers warm as a bench, windows glare into its glass ball … Continue reading →

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Morning to Evening

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Quad

Never gonna leave this bed… * You like it best, in the morning, the afternoon The early hours honey, speak to you The sun drifts, speckled by shadows Our bed turns lemon and we suck The rinds, its peel, its … Continue reading →

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