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Poetry Month – A few football poems
Drop in by Josephine Lay
Two year ago on a gorgeous summer day, I first encountered Josephine Lay reading poems from her second collection, Unravelling, at Evesham’s Festival of Words. I was so impressed I went straight home and bought a copy. Therefore I’m particularly delighted that Josephine has agreed to drop in to reflect upon a poem from her recently published second collection, A Quietus.
Thank you, Nigel, for inviting me to ‘Drop In’ and discuss a poem from my recent collection A Quietus, published 2021, by Black Eyes Publishing UK.
It took me a while to choose which poem to feature, but finally I decided on Abscission. Abscission, for those who haven’t come across the term, is the process of separation of leaf from tree as the length of day shortens. It’s a natural structural and chemical change at the base of the leaf; the plant creates a layer…
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Happy #WorldPhotographyDay What is the best photo you have taken? State why you think it is your best. I will feature all on my blog post today.
World Photography Day
Taken recently, the colours and contrast are excellent and the flare that makes it all work is due to a slightly damaged lense on the phone.
-Graham Bibby
Taken while visiting my sister’s family in the U.K. a few years ago. I’ve always been proud of how I framed this one up with the branches surrounding, peering through to the English countryside. 🙂
-Samantha Terrell
Arachnida Sonnets by Paul Brookes (an occasional series)
Poetry Month – Two new poems
Eat Here, Get Gas & Worms by Steve Spence (The Red Ceilings Press)
Steve Spence, based in Plymouth where he co-organises the Language Club, studied at theUniversity of Plymouth and has publishedA Curious Shipwreckfrom Shearsman in 2010. He also writes a good many reviews and is a regular contributor toTears in the Fence.
This chapbook, of 41 poems, is organised in a standard format of 4 quatrains and a closing couplet, unrhymed. Most of the pieces have short 3-word titles. No named protagonists, but a ‘he’ and ‘she’ are given to comment fairly often. Patrick Holden has called Spence a ‘connoisseur of noise pollution’.
Before all else, Spence isn’t sticking to a specific narrative, so, no, nobody eats here, gets gas or worms, and the artwork is a spare abstract of red, black and blue that could almost be a Rorschach blot.
Spence on a certain level is involved in a game with the reader, this can read a bit…
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Poetry Month – ‘Stroke’
#BlackCatAppreciationDay Anybody unpublished/published poetry about black cats. Photos and artworks welcome too. I will feature all in my blog today.
Black Cat Appreciation Day
-John Hawkhead (from Presence 47 and the ‘Write Like Issa’ (David G Lanoue) Anthology)
-Jet by spangle mcqueen
The Wombwell Rainbow 