POEM Rae Howells
NWR Issue 119Crowsong
I used to think a crow’s black
could best be described as an absence
a black hole cut into the sky...
Rae Howells is a journalist and poet from Swansea. She won last year’s International Welsh Poetry Competition and this year’s Rialto Nature and Place competition. Her work has appeared in the
Rialto, Envoi, New Welsh Review, Poetry Ireland and
The Bay, as well as in the Arvon and Rhys Davies winners’ anthologies. Her limited edition pamphlet,
Five, is available via her website
www.raehowells.co.uk.
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