Poetry - Quotes

Question 1

Keeping Orchids - loss

Answer 1

1. My mother’s hands are all I have
2. Her voice rushes through a tunnel the other way from home
3. A paisley pattern scarf, a brooch, a navy coat

Question 2

Gap Year - loss

Answer 2

1. The baby turtles to the massive leatherbacks
2. I feel like a home-alone mother
3. Wearing your large black slippers, flip-flopping into your empty bedroom

Question 3

My Grandmother’s Houses - loss

Answer 3

1. When she gets the letter she is hopping mad.
2. The sideboard solid as a coffin
3. cemetery… noisy kids

Question 4

Whilst Leila Sleeps - close relationships

Answer 4

1. I want to be in my mother’s house… the other side of the world
2. I try and say something to soothe
3. My voice is a house with the roof blown off

Question 5

Lucozade - close relationships

Answer 5

1. I am sixteen; I’ve never tasted a Bloody Mary.
2. I leave, bags full, Lucozade, grapes, oranges,
   sad chrysanthemums
3. dandelion hours

Question 6

Old Tongue - loss

Answer 6

1. Words fell off my tongue
2. Old words buried themselves
3. I lost my Scottish accent