Above the tree line

Nora Hughes grew up in Belfast. In the 1970s she moved to London, where she worked as a language and literacy teacher for many years. 

 Her pamphlet Under Divis Mountain received the iOTA SHOT award in 2020.

 Her poems have been anthologised in The Book of Love and Loss (Belgrave Press 2014), Reflected Light (Grey Hen Press 2020), Storm Brain (Hippocrates Press 2021) and Washing Windows Too: Irish Women Write Poetry (Arlen House 2022).

Listen to poetry from the collection below

'The Peninsula'

Into the  icy hall I see her go

The chickens in Hunter's yard

Mare Nostrum

Above the tree line

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                            'All this stayed with me, crystal-clear,

                             over the years, but for something

                             I lost sight of…'

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