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Lent/Elegies and the Nanopress

31 May 2012

Some time ago now, the announcement went out that I had published another book. When people began to congratulate me on this, I wasn’t sure what they were talking about. Then I realized they were referring to the chapbook Lent / Elegies, a collection of poems that I wrote after the death of my mother. [...]

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This one’s for Lynn: Aimee Mullins on poetry, science and super-powers

20 June 2009

Lynn Sweeting, that is. Science can make her able; art and poetry make her super-able. O brave new world, that has such creatures in it!

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“On the Wreck of the Henrietta Marie

7 June 2009

Accepted by The Caribbean Writer. Now this is a poem that has been hanging around my Writing folder for four years or so. Inspired by a conjunction between the travelling exhibition of the slave ship that re-opened the Pompey Museum after the 2001 Market Fire and an in-depth poetry workshop session over at the Poetry [...]

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“Red”

16 June 2008

Geoffrey Philp reads a poem here, called “Red”. It’s about being in between. As Philp writes: And while this poem does not adhere strictly to the form [the ghazal], it did allow me to play with the word “red,” which at the start of the poem refers to a biracial person or “half-caste.”    

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National Poetry Month

25 April 2008

I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, and am posting (irregularly) the poems I’m writing daily. But I wanted to note that Geoffrey Philp has been doing a daily update on Caribbean poets all month long. You can find it here. Today’s is particularly good: Anthony McNeill (Jamaica): Somebody is hanging: a logwood tree [...]

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It’s April

1 April 2008

and the USA is celebrating National Poetry Month.  Not that (a) we’re American, or that (b) we should do what our northern neighbours do, but it occurs to me that it wouldn’t harm us to have national months for some reason or another. The problem is that nothing our governments decide seem to stick anymore. [...]

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