Norman’s poem, Hannah, is featured in this month’s cirenscene.com online magazine.
Norman was born in Edinburgh and is related to J M Barrie, the author of Peter Pan. He has lived most of his life in England. He has visited Japan many times since the early 90’s and is very fond of their poetic form: the haiku. He says he writes to capture fleeting thoughts and moments.
If you visit somewhere-else-writers.com/norman-smith/ you can listen to Hannah, read by Helen McLuckie, Norman’s late wife, who died earlier this year.
Not only can you read and hear work by members of the writers’ group on the website, but you can also buy a print copy of their anthology; “Off the Wall” published last summer, at Somewhere Else Café Bar, 65, Castle Street, which features QR codes linking to Audio tracks of poetry, stories and plays, none of which have been created by Artificial Intelligence!
Hannah
I’m reading poems to you this morning.
Me in my bookish space
Sunlight shining in from the east.
Yeats gives you Cloths of Heaven
treading softly on your dreams.
Christina Rosetti brings you Spring
in Dreamland.
If only you were here sweetheart
I’d be happy holding you.
I’d be happy holding you.
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