I can do Sunday – that’d be fun! I’m actually going to send feedback quite
early in the week as I need to do taxes (overdue) and assess 6 or 7 hours’
worth of grant applications for the stunning payment of $177, and those will
take up my glorious week. Shouldn’t be complaining as Julie’s week involves
surgery (ew). Good luck, Jules. I’ll be thinking about you.
Also looking forward to the podcast, Jen. Thanks for that. And also huge thanks
for those of you who answered my question about poetry’s place in our COVID
world. You’ve definitely given me more to consider / talk about. Alison got
back to me solo and spoke about a ranga she’s doing with poets from Scotland,
which (I hope you don’t mind I’m sharing, Al) really points to that longing for
connection, which is exactly what we’re doing here, and I’d forgotten to
consider what we’re doing here altogether! Duh!
Love to you all
Heather
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Behalf Of Mike H
Sent: Friday, 22 May 2020 6:26 PM
To: poetpests@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [poetpests] Fortnight #1 - Disappearance Poem
Dear real poets
I will never again be mistaken for a real poet. What a shit few weeks. After a
fairly creative first 6 weeks I've felt completely blocked for the last few. I
liked Jen's prompt and drafted a "poem" also trying to fit it to the prompt of
the Melinda Smith workshop I'm doing. It got very dark, which maybe "froze" me.
I laboured over it for days and days. You ever get the feeling that you're
trapped inside a poem and no matter what you do with it, it's never going to
work. Belatedly I abandoned it.
Today I bashed this out. It's a Luwili and an Iluwil. I did a workshop years
ago with Joshua Ip, a Singaporean poet who taught this form. I haven't tried
one for a few years. There's an explanation of the form at the foot of the
page. So when providing feedback, be aware of the fairly strict constraints.
Thanks for your poems and that podcast looks great Jen.
When will we zoom? This Sunday?
Mike
