Yvonne Reddick

Yvonne Reddick



Mountain Hare

Solid mist on speed,
a hare springs from the prayer
of a lost mountaineer.

Jink through the peat-banks,
Lepus, upland leaper.
Hear the marksman’s heart
before he hits his mark.





YVONNE REDDICK’s publications include Spikenard (Laureate’s Choice), Translating Mountains (Seren) and Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet (Palgrave). She is an editor at Magma, and co-edited issue 75, on the theme of loss.