A great joy for me this week was the reaction to my poetry on @iamb.uk👇 Thanks again to @markantonyowen.com Do take a look at the rest of the iamb site, which features text & readings by @pascalepetit.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @robinince.bsky.social & many more #poemsaloud #poetrycommunity

For #PoemsAbout #Strays @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAloud
here’s a voice from the ancestors (Kenneth Patchen) on the topic today—there’s also fierce guitar. frankhudson.org/2019/12/14/d...

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I’ve got my ticket…

Paul Short’s poetry open mics are excellent. Book your place to share your poems or just come and listen. Always a friendly occasion, spent with people who care about language, sensitively chaired by @paulwritespoems.bsky.social

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I’m delighted to be in the current wave of iamb👇, with 3 poems, text and recording: In the Time of the Ice Saints (with thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social), Metronome (with a deep bow to Beethoven), & Late Snow. My thanks to excellent editor @markantonyowen.com #poetrycommunity #poemsaloud

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Robert Browning was a master of the dramatic monologue, who created rich, usually unreliable, often sinister personalities who seem to address us with a mix of self-apologia & self-deception. Here’s one of his most alarming & famous poems, My Last Duchess, read by me for #poemsaloud #poetrycommunity

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Seamus Heaney also uses his fine descriptive powers in prose poems in Stations about sectarianism. In ‘July’ he conjures up the Orange July 12 parades, their Old Testament resonance, their encircling menace on the world of a Catholic child. Here’s my reading of July for #poemsaloud #poetrycommunity

The thread below👇 features the poem The Lane by Edward Thomas, a beautiful and suitably strange reflection on the uncanny interpenetration of the seasons and how this can seem to suspend time itself.

I felt impelled to read and record it for #poemsaloud #poetrycommunity