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The Bond
978-1-906613-48-8
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Winner in the 2010 Book & Pamphlet Competition, judged by Simon Armitage
Maitreyabandhu has won the Keats-Shelley Prize, The Basil Bunting Award, the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, and the New Writer and Ledbury Festival competitions. His poems have been published in such as The Guardian online, Poetry Review, and The North, and his articles have appeared in Poetry Review, Magma and Agenda. He lives at the London Buddhist Centre and has been ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order for 20 years. He has written two books on Buddhism. Maitreyabandhu was a winner in the 2010 Book & Pamphlet Competition, judged by Simon Armitage, with his collection The Bond. 'Nostalgic, but not sentimental or wistful, the poems have a real sense of the here and now. They strike home.' — Simon Armitage THE VIEWING Her hairbrush rested on a green-glass dish Someone said ‘peaceful’ but I wouldn’t say that.
among empty jars with metal screw-on lids.
It felt like being in church or having to wear
a tie when it was hot; but the room was cold
and too clean. It smelt of iodine and tin.
My parents had got taller and further away,
they stood unusually close. My father’s voice
was the voice he kept for solemn things.
And if there was a special quiet, it made
the air peel off us like a skin – her nose
suddenly eagle-like and high, her eyes
sunk back. It was her but it was someone else
as well: it might have been the wolf.
