Dolmen by Jen Hadfield
The poem
Copyright © Jen Hadfield 2021. “Dolmen”, from her 2021 collection “The Stone Age”, is printed with the kind permission of PICADOR, an imprint of Pan Macmillan. Jen Hadfield lives in Shetland. Her first collection, Almanacs, won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003. Her second collection, Nigh-No-Place, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition in 2012.
Guest Poet: Paul O’Donnell
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