Samantha Walton responds to depictions of Saint Lucy, who ‘holds her eyes on a plate / or sometimes at the ends of two twisting green shoots’ in psychedelic poetry.
Samantha Walton
Samantha Walton is a poet, researcher and publisher based in Bristol. Her first collection, Self Heal was published by Boiler House Press in 2018. Her poems have been published in Cambridge Literary Review, Datableed, Granta, and Herald Scotsman. She co-runs the poetry publisher, Sad Press, and teaches literature at Bath Spa University.
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