Latest Poem

My Bench

Not on the tarmac esplanade

Where the proudest benches tout.

Nor facing the rising or setting suns  –

It needs no glory from light’s posturing.

Not varnished annually  –

Its grain is weathered truth.

Overgrown, uncatalogued,

It hosts no remembrance spray,

Save the blossom fall

In sadness and in triumph.

Sit away from faster paths.

Under this unpruned bower

The world in shaded silence

Unfolds itself around you.

Stuart Larner

republished from Every Day Poets

New Year Book sale 

 January sales   $0.99 

starts Dec31st.  

Must end  Jan 7th.   

Hurry. 

Hope

Poem:

6th November

This morning my son and I

searched the lane for fallen rockets.

We found only one:

 a charred remnant amongst sodden leaves

run over by a car.

'Obviously a dud,' I said, 'burnt out

before it had even reached those trees.'

'No Dad,' he said.

'This fell back to earth

after it had scorched the stars.'

Stuart Larner

(earlier version first published disguised in prose on the letters page Scarborough Evening News , 10/11/08).

my new book, written under the nom-de-plume Rosy Stewart. co-authored with Rosie Larner.

Hope: Stories from a Women's Refuge

The story of three women who track down perpetrators of domestic violence. A series of their cases.

Comfort Regained

I found my old Teddy in a cupboard,
A cross stitched over where each eye once lay.
His mouth is sewn into a smile so broad
As though he’d still have soothing things to say.

His ear hangs off as if he’s strained so long
And worn it out listening all those years.
Time’s washed us both: I’ve grown, he’s shrunk, among
The tumble-turnings of my adult cares.

Feel his fur. Comforting is his soft art.
Still the same cuddly stuffing all way through.
Against my cheek I think I hear his heart.
You hold him. Listen. You might hear him too.

Stuart Larner

first published by Every Day Poets

New Book!

The Car 

Republished in a new illustrated edition after 21 years.

A series of twenty-eight Shakespearean sonnets describing the human condition in terms of the workings of a motor car.

An owner’s workshop manual for servicing your life.