Stretcher Bearer  (an extract) appeared on BBC Radio Foyle, October 2014.

Stretcher Bearer appeared in a The Narrow Fellow, Journal of Poetry, spring, USA. 2015

‘Stretcher Bearer’s Story’is collected in Forms of Freedom. Poems, by Sam Burnside, Lapwing Poetry, Belfast, 2015.

(Stretcher Bearer was nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize, USA, 2016)

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Moths have been drawn; so quiet, yet

He senses them, he feels them, their wings, they beat so lightly

This place of awe and earth

This place of water and fire

Of fresh bones and withering weeds

This place of prayer

From Stretcher Bearer

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This was recently read as for the BBC radio Foyle World Day 2014. Read by Sam Burnside.