‘If there’s a dog on the cellar steps/ I’m dreaming and there’s/ a price to pay.’
‘Is this a dream or a lie? The hippogriff canters on the grassy downs. I see its soft feathers. I avoid its cold, dark eyes’ Isaac invented his poem from using our Randomiser (pictured), then chopping up his ideas to edit into a poem. We had long discussions about line-breaks. Here’s the whole thing: This one is by Loreta, with its origins in tsunami and … Continue reading ‘If there’s a dog on the cellar steps/ I’m dreaming and there’s/ a price to pay.’
Wenlock Poetry Festival #3 : The Busk, The 52-ers, The Gazette, The Finale
Wenlock Poetry Festival is so good on new things – and in 2015 a great New Thing was the Poetry Busk. Designed and compered by the wonderful Liz Lefroy, the Poetry Busk packed in ten hours of non-stop poetry, in which so many voices were heard ‘below the Sheet’. Here’s Liz in front of the Sheet. Here, in order of appearance, is everyone who read: … Continue reading Wenlock Poetry Festival #3 : The Busk, The 52-ers, The Gazette, The Finale
JEAN ATKIN 