via A Finger, by Paul Brookes

http://www.indigodreams.co.uk/kate-garrett-doomsday/4593922000

You’ve never seen a doomsday like it by Kate Garrett

22 poems

From self contemplation to the legacy of children.

Half tell of a childhood and youth in America, half tell of a time now lived in England.

Packed full of delight and terror for your five senses. A weave of legend, myth, geography and history amid urban drugs, violence and abuse.

Her first poem called “A circular route” is an image of self reflection. Her last hopes for her children.

Poems to reread, with a sense of wonder. An experience of escape that like all great tales brings you back to yourself. A revelation.

via Ash and Prayer

Please visit my Author sites at Goodreads and Amazon

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Greatly appreciate Visual Verse featuring my poem “O, Artificial”.

https://visualverse.org/submissions/o-artificial/

Seven of my Vacanas featured in magnificent company in The Poet By Day. Immense gratitude to Jamie

via “Repenting Peter” (El Greco) …. and other responses to the last Wednesday Writing Prompt

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17456273.Paul_Brookes

Broken Stories by Reuben Woolley, published by 20/20 Vision Publishing, 2017

Innovative in form, though some may think of ee cummings. In this work there are no capital letters.
Few full stops, never at the end of poems and no page numbers.

Music is integral to Reuben’s Broken Stories. At its centre the myth of Eurydice. At the start “& all that jazz”, the poet plays a horn.

do they play
jazz
in your heaven
the heat
rising
where bird flies
quiet

“bird” perhaps a reference to the late innovative saxophone player and composer Charlie Parker.
The notion of looking back as a form of loss, the recovery of the dead through grief. Stories of the broken enacted by broken lines by a shore, in flight. Ancient stories hinted at like “splinterman”. Well worth a google.

Often modern poetry is seen as having a close kinship with jazz, especially in the jazz poets of the 1930s and 40s. It is important to read Reuben’s poetry out loud to catch his rhythms, intonations and lyricism. And the repeated references to silence, bone, blood, sand and sky. Poetry to be reread. Poetry rich in reference, resonance and connection. A must buy. I look forward to reading future work by this stunning poet.

via Ecce Panis, a poem … and your Wednesday Writing Prompt

via “Playing for the Win”… and other responses to the last Wednesday Writing Prompt