Urgent Poetry - Kim Hyesoon - Cathy Dreyer

Hi Cathy, you are in my blog post.

We met up for lunch and I came away with the name Kim Hyesoon. I have just had a google and hit an article with the stunning title of 'What is urgent poetry?' I then found a gory kitchen poem.

What is urgent poetry? I like this phrase because I used it myself in a poem I wrote a few weeks ago after a poetry experiment out in our garden during a massive thunder and lightning storm with no rain. See how different the comments are.

Gory kitchen poem by Kim Hyesoon The cries of the spoons....a glass of tangy star...a flock of birds crawled out of the hole...

Cathy edits The Stare's Nest with Judi Sutherland. Do submit work to them.

'Not so much cars, more tanks' - On stage at the Wantage Betjeman Literary Festival

'Not so much cars, more tanks'

I had asked what the film 'Fury' was about, and suggested 'guns and cars?' That phrase was the answer. Then we both watched the trailer. I wonder when IS will be safely enough in the past to be filmed? Though what could be a good angle on something that brutal?

Today I was at the village shop, post-hospital-visit and not feeling myself. The lady asked me if I'd like a bag and I answered with 'No, I want a miracle!'

On Stage

A wonderful feeling to be there with a whole room of attentive people, just 5 short poems to read out and instructions to give a bit of chat as well. The reactions were amazing, a little 'mm' after each one. I have never heard that before in any readings I have been to, or maybe I am not that perceptive? The things I read were as different from each other as I could choose. I ended with a high energy one.

Wantage Betjeman Literary Festival

2 people I know are performing this coming Sunday, Nic May and Cathy Dreyer: includes vegetarian lunch and is upstairs at the beautiful Shoulder of Mutton pub in the centre of Wantage, at midday.