Portrait artwork for poet Alan Garner

Poems by Alan Garner

Quiet poems for page and voice.

Alan Garner writes attentive, atmospheric poems about place, memory, love, and the small weather of ordinary days. This prototype gathers written poems and spoken-word sketches in one calm listening room.

Featured audio poem

A Cup Left Warm

An intimate domestic poem about affection in small gestures. The audio is represented here as a SoundCloud placeholder, ready for Alan’s recording.

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Love was not the thunder I expected,
but a cup left warm
on the narrow edge of morning.

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This is a first sketch: a place where Alan can collect page poems, audio readings, short introductions, and categories that make the work easy to wander through.