Welcome to NVQ issue 7 – our second issue in the age of the pandemic. Since we couldn’t meet face-to-face (still), we thought we would continue the virtual mic feature we developed for our last issue.

We hope you enjoy hearing the poets reading their work.

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The Homes of Others (0:43), Sahana Ahmed

 

Millennium (1:40), Wendy BooydeGraaff

 

Elegy for Me and My Mother (1:31), Teresa T. Chappell

 

In a section of the museum we find (1:13), PS Cottier

 

Biology Homework (1:36), Olga Dermott-Bond

 

Chronicle of Lost Moments (1:58), Lara Dolphin

 

On Joy Hester’s late portraits of girls (1:20), Sally Denshire

 

Leaving the First State Home I was Placed In (1:46), Karen Downs-Barton

 

a house i remember that isn’t mine (0:38), Ariana Eftimiu

 

Staying with the Grey Sisters at Age 3¼ (1:23), Anne Elvey

 

The Lesson (1:31), Kathryn Fry

 

Pandora’s Kitchen (1:11), Allison Goldstein

 

How to make a funeral wreath (3:10), Hazel Hall

 

Building Memories (11:27), Siobhan Harvey

 

HIROSHIMA (0:33), Susan Howard

 

For the Girl Who Worked in Leonard Hall (1:47), Katherine Hughes

 

Kitchen (1:48), Linda Kernan

 

Redbird (7:01), Kara Knickerbocker

 

How to Make a Snow Angel (1:49), Emma Lee

 

Things Learned (1:15), Sadie Maskery

 

Terra incognita (2:16), Rachael Mead

 

Loop (1:55), Alexa Mergen

 

Tale of an Australian Opal (2:43), Helen Moore

 

Nani (0:57), Kavita Nandan

 

The papering of distance (1:36), Denise O’Hagan

 

I Do Remember The Wall (1:47), Rosa O’Kane

 

Grandmother’s Quilt  (1:58), Vera Oko

 

Outside A Pocket, 1947 (0:41), Mandira Pattnaik

 

Karanga (1:09), Sarah Penwarden

 

Brown Snake Awakens in the Everywhen (1:17), Fiona Perry

 

Public pool, women’s changing room (1:20), Stephanie Powell

 

Ashridge Forest (1:18), Vanessa Proctor

 

Certainty (1:24), Lyn Reeves

 

misInheritance (0:32), Autumn Riley

 

Leave the Light On … please (2:34), Robyn Rowland

 

Bird’s Song (2:11), Preeti Shah

 

JUMP (1:30), Ellen Shelley

 

Playing scrabble with my mother (0:56), Ann Shenfield

 

To Grow (0:49), Brittany Smart

 

How to Be a Good Girl (1:39), Beth Spencer

 

Waiting (1:51), Sarah St Vincent Welch

 

An olive rolls under the fridge (1:23), Anna Veprinska

 

Just Before Covid-19 Hits I Sell my Gold (2:38), Miriam Wei Wei Lo

 

Straphanging (2:59), Jena Woodhouse

 

This is My Secret (1:10), Kai Zwiebel

 

From NVQ Editors

You’ll never walk alone (1:37), Anne Casey

 

A chalk outline of the soul (1:35)l Tricia Dearborn

 

Behind the counter (1:13), K A Nelson

 

I Feel You Breathing (1:15), Moya Pacey

 

There were coconuts (1:29), Anita Patel

 

Recovered (1:38), Sandra Renew

 

Featured artist

BHP (Be Humble Please) (1:06), Teena McCarthy