Met Obsis a large pamphlet, lovely to hold and look through, withsuperb black-and-white photographs by Jen Lindsay.You are encouraged to take your time over these poems: even a four-line poem will usually be in the centre of an otherwise blank page. And they need time: they have a fullness which allows for sudden new directions, jump-cuts, and startling changes of register. There is a strong presence of what feels like rural Suffolk, a particular house and garden, and its surrounding natural world; of night; and also of the sea and seashore. There are other human presences.The idea of a world in endless transformation is there in the first poem, ‘Moly’. The middle stanza has a steady focus on sleet on a ploughed field until, in its third and last line:
‘a seethecapsizing meunmoored strangeness of raw’
Through its characteristic patterning of sound (seethe/memoor/rawcaps/ness), we feel the plough and the…
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Photo of their own Bourbonhenge by The Pembrokeshire Poet.
-River Swan Avon.
They say about Jammie Dodgers:
Who doesn’t love a Jammie Dodger? They’re the staple of Brits’ biscuit tins with their perfect combination of shortcake and jam! The heart in the middle says it all
Bios And Links
-The Pembrokeshire Poet
lives in Pembrokeshire in Wales. A teacher, therapist, parent of 3, writer, poet. Passionate about people, Inclusivity (lots of their poems are themed around this) Wales, literature and laughter. They have completed three children’s novels as well as lots of poems and their dream is to be a published author.
-River Swan of Avon
is an independent publisher of illustrations, cards and prints, based in Stratford-upon-Avon. All illustrations are inspired by Great Britain. They are created by Naomi Hands-Smith using a traditional nib ink pen and layered with bright watercolour washes. See http://riverswanofavon.com
Sue says: I want people to be able to hear my poetry read aloud and am enjoying creating an archive of my work. I aim to record a poem each month.
Her site can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdPS21ilEZ1rrlnF_rkJV7w/about
Today I have the great pleasure of welcoming Andy Breckenridge to reflect on his inventive and vibrant pamphlet, The Liquid Air (Hybriddreich, 2021)
I am very grateful indeed to Nigel for this opportunity to drop in and write about a poem from my pamphlet The Liquid Air. It was one of six chosen for publication in the Dreich Slims submission call in 2021, and was published in July last year.
In the short collection I examine themes of self imposed exile – and more generally how it feels to be ‘ … in our element, and out of it. Or somewhere in between’, as it says in the blurb. As someone born and raised in Oban in the West of Scotland add now living in Brighton, the theme of dislocation is often present in my writing. It influences the way I present family, friendship, memory, location and love, either…
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The Wombwell Rainbow 