Conversation

Two men in the pub

Talk of keeping fish

And having access

To their kids,

I want to tell them

They can do both.

Bernard Pearson’s work appears in many publications, including Aesthetica Magazine, The Edinburgh Review, The York Literary Review, and Heart of Flesh. In 2017, a selection of his poetry ‘In Free Fall’ was published by Leaf by Leaf Press. In 2019, he won second prize in The Aurora Poetry Prize.