Myra Schneider

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Myra Schneider myra.sch@ukonlione.co.uk
I am a British poet, a poetry and writing tutor and author of the widely acclaimed Writing My Way Through Cancer and co-author of the bestselling handbook *Writing for Self-Discovery. My latest collection of poetry, Multiplying The Moon* is published by Enitharmon. In The London Magazine Grevel Lindop says of this book '...it confirms her as an important poet.'
"... worth getting hold of if you like your poetry emotionally vulnerable, richly allusive and superbly poised between past and present." This is how Jane Holland reviewed my work in Poetry London.
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THE ORANGE TREES OF SEVILLE

I step from a taxi to a scent that hints
tropical heat, to the glass shine
of doors opening to other lives.
And it's real - the perfume piercing
the air is everywhere, its source
the blossom in small white marriages
on trees nested with globes, each
so orange it carries the red tinge
of a huge moon slung low in the sky.

The trees stand in pairs sweetening
avenue, square, passageway.
And at the centre of old courtyards,
whose Moorish arches lead to rooms
silken with darkness, I come upon them
standing in epiphanies of light
as if they never shed rubbery leaves,
ecstatic blossom, as if their oranges
are the perpetual I'm continually trying
to cup in my hands without questioning
whether always is a prize I want.

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