Diane Jackman's poetry has appeared in Rialto, Outposts, Happenstance, Snakeskin, small press magazines and many anthologies. She was the winner of the Liverpool Festival, Deddington and Café Writers Norfolk prizes. Starting out as a children's writer with seven books and more than 100 stories published, she now concentrates on poetry. With her late composer husband she wrote several works for choir and the libretto for Pinocchio for Kings' Singers/LSO. She has recently completed a sequence, Lessons from the Orchard and is now working on water poems.
Song post chimney where a thrush heralds the darkness of a soft summer evening, pouring out its matchless music to a deafened world.