As well as editing the poetry websites Red Thread Haiku Sangha and In the Moonlight a Worm Silently Drills a Chestnut, George Marsh is the author of Teaching Through Poetry: Writing and the Drafting Process, published by Hodder and Stoughton (London) in 1988. George has taught in schools, and in the teacher training departments and in the literature departments […]
Monastery bells – the incense the candles the woodblocks the gong light like mist on the quarrytile floor where a lacewing grooms from far below, the rise in pitch of a big kettle filling – and in the stillness, a tickle as into my ear creeps a guest some little thing with a tread as […]
evening at Chithurst – there is nothing in the world but the blackbird’s song the song notes stitch me to earth and to clouds each white head of cloud takes in distinct whistled trills hands cupping water in the stream – the blackbird’s voice flows * air of the shrine room salted with song – […]
it cannot be seen but it can be painted it cannot be spoken but it can be heard though found in the fingers it is not a sense though found in the heart it is not a feeling it never came and it never leaves in war it does not weep in peace it does […]
He painted a busy picture On a red ground Perhaps with figures, – anyway, A lot of white bits, – and then After god knows what After god knows how long With a scrawny brush Stabbed it black Like creosote slobbered layer on layer To caulk out all light. Traces of the painting remain: Some […]
Ed.: Text of “The Starry Floor” is not available.
George Marsh talks about the genesis and subject of his poetry that “arises out of meditative retreats.”
George Marsh talks about how he first became interested in poetry.