Widely published, Iris has been featured in Black Bough Poetry and has won and been placed in a number of competitions, including being highy commended in the Wales Poetry Award and the Poetry Society’s ‘Stanza’ competition. Her first collection ‘Amber’ was published in 2024 and is available at £8.00 from Amazon.
A founder member of the Somewhere Else Writers Group in Cirencester, Iris enjoys the group’s weekly meetings with their supportive atmosphere and constructive criticism of members’ creative writing.
She is also a leader of ‘Writers in the Library’ free to all at 2.00pm every second Monday each month at Cirencester’s Bingham Library
You can read her poem; “The Walled Garden in July” online at Cirenscene.com/local-news, and for more, go to somewhere-else-writers.org featuring audio as well as other members’ writing.
The Walled Garden in July
White and green
meanders down the slope –
a cool cascade flowing
over terraces of scorched soil.
Queen Anne’s Lace
displays its proud white umbels
to the sky; lilies, not yet open,
keep their flamboyance tightly furled and hiding.
No breath of wind –
even the marguerites, usually
so jolly in their white and yellow,
do not dance, hold themselves in stillness.
Buddleia flowers,
half spent with browning bases,
curve their creamy tips, point
downhill – a warning that soon summer
will be gone
and we will need
to take refuge from autumn’s chill
in the museum cafe down below.
For now, even the bees
are somnolent, lazily humming
pollen-heavy songs. Shawled in sun
l sit in the garden, eat a peach.
Its downy skin caresses
my lips. I sink my teeth
into its yielding flesh.
Juice dribbles down my throat.
Iris Anne Lewis
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