Like many Brits, I grew up listening to the shipping forecast, a BBC Radio broadcast that provides weather reports for the seas around the British Isles. It's been a national institution since 1925, providing an iconic style of broadcasting, sonically unique and peculiar, making it doubly enticing for lovers of language and cadence. My poem imagines a woman anxiously awaiting the daily report, unraveling on the linoleum as she imagines her husband lost at sea; the stuff my childhood imagination thrived on!

Rebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet based in Brooklyn. The author of Permit Me to Write My Own Ending, (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023), her work appears in The Maine Review, The Poetry Society of New York, CALYX Press, and elsewhere. Her new collection, Daughters of the Minotaur, is forthcoming in 2027 from Regal House Publishing.

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