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Anne Grimes has lived in this beautiful Welsh valley for the last thirty years. She wrote poetry at university and sporadically thereafter but began to write more seriously and consistently when her children were growing up. She worked in education as an English teacher and was head of the English Department of Ealing Grammer School for Girls before leaving to bring up her two childern. In Wales she has worked with disturbed boys in Lampeter and then as a lecturer in Further Education in Cardigan. She is a member of the Lampeter Writers Workshop run by Gillian Clarke.
Anne has had two books published. 'Heron's Way' and 'Alice's Cat' (The later still available through Peterloo press http://www.peterloopoets.co.uk/ ) and has been published in numerous magazines and journals including She magazine, Envoi, Second Light, Poetry Wales, Interpreters House, New Welsh Review and others
She is currently finishing her third book

Ovum
as a blob
or silken glob
of milky albumen
contains a living spot
needs only the thrust of a male
a sperm with its quickening tail
to fertilize that quivering dot.
Then the process of life begins.
Sperm prints itself. A tadpole
foetus starts to grow
eyes, nose, limbs
a couples goal.
Embryo
1 Magpies
2 Chernobyl
3 Return to Chernobyl
4 Absence
5 Circumlocution
6 Persephone
7 Erebus revisited
8 Alice's Cat
9 Sometimes I see a cloud
10 Lost Child

11 On the coach to Hay-on-Wye
12 Brecon Cathedral
13 Honeymoon
14 Waiting
15 How can I say I love you?
16 Eclipse of the Moon
17 Big Issue
18 Resurrection

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	Anne Grimes has lived in this beautiful Welsh valley for the last thirty years. She wrote poetry at university and sporadically thereafter but began to write more seriously and consistently when her children were growing up. She worked in education as an English teacher and was head of the English Department of Ealing Grammer School for Girls before leaving to bring up her two childern. In Wales she has worked with disturbed boys in Lampeter and then as a lecturer in Further Education in Cardigan. She is a member of the Lampeter Writers Workshop run by Gillian Clarke. Anne has had two books published. 'Heron's Way' and 'Alice's Cat' (The later still available through Peterloo press http://www.peterloopoets.co.uk/ ) and has been published in numerous magazines and journals including She magazine, Envoi, Second Light, Poetry Wales, Interpreters House, New Welsh Review and others She is currently finishing her third book
Ovum as a blob or silken glob of milky albumen contains a living spot needs only the thrust of a male a sperm with its quickening tail to fertilize that quivering dot. Then the process of life begins. Sperm prints itself. A tadpole foetus starts to grow eyes, nose, limbs a couples goal. Embryo	1 Magpies 2 Chernobyl 3 Return to Chernobyl 4 Absence 5 Circumlocution 6 Persephone 7 Erebus revisited 8 Alice's Cat 9 Sometimes I see a cloud 10 Lost Child	11 On the coach to Hay-on-Wye 12 Brecon Cathedral 13 Honeymoon 14 Waiting 15 How can I say I love you? 16 Eclipse of the Moon 17 Big Issue 18 Resurrection