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Winter Prayers — POEM by Barbara Leonard

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Barbara Leonhard

Barbara Leonhard

An author of Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (2022) and The Lost Book of Zeroth (2025). Also, she is co-author of Too Much Fun to Be Legal (2024) and Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry (2025). She is the Editor for Masticadores USA and FEED THE HOLY, as well. Her WordPress blog is Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver. She’s a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Trending Poets named her Poet of the Year in 2023 and 2024. Moreover, her poetry has been translated into Italian, Albanian, and Chinese.

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Helen Pletts

Helen Pletts is a British poet based in Cambridge. She is the English co-translator of Chinese poet Ma Yongbo 马永波. She is also a member of the committee for CB1 Poetry, the monthly poetry reading event in Cambridge. Her work has been translated into Chinese, Bangla, Greek, Vietnamese, Serbian, Korean, Arabic, Italian, Albanian and Romanian. Additionally, she and Ma Yongbo are joint creators of the ongoing ‘Ma Yongbo Poetry Road Trip - Summer Tour 2025’, for International Times.IT, currently at Volume 30.

Her poetry has five shortlistings for the Bridport Poetry Prize (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024) as well; two longlistings for The Rialto Nature & Place Prize (2018, 2022); a longlisting for the Ginkgo Prize (2019); a longlisting for the National Poetry Competition (2022); 2nd Prize in the Plaza Prose Poetry Competition (2022-23), and a shortlisting for the Plaza Prose Poetry Competition (2023-24).

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Winter Prayers — POEM by Barbara Leonard - Exclusive

The sound of snow is holy.
Old bark listens to the lilting chants;
Of processions of children;
On drifting banks.
Laughter resounds as accolades.