Newly Qualified
'On tiptoe I follow God around the classroom'
– Astrid Alben, 'And Become A Monkey'
Our Martyrology and Saints Studies
degree requires constant self-sacrifice
and a devotion to impossible facts.
Believe and you will be rewarded
by degree, by decree. It is hard
to know the truth and the truth
has set a fee. The cave doctor will
see you now; we are all together
in this world, living in the dark.
Rupert Loydell is a writer, editor and abstract artist. His many books of poetry include Dear Mary (Shearsman, 2017) and The Return of the Man Who Has Everything (Shearsman 2015); and he has edited anthologies such as Yesterday’s Music Today (co-edited with Mike Ferguson, Knives Forks and Spoons Press 2014), and Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh: manifestos and unmanifestos (Salt, 2010)
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