poem with music
We have just finished our most recent project in the Poem by Post series, which is also our first one with music! Here’s the last ones being sewn up…
Vigil
publications
Killick
This project has been ongoing over a number of years, see earlier notes, and I had hoped that this collection of poems would put the lid on it…
This is now unlikely to be the case, I cannot put the project out of my mind, and I am interested in putting the poems to music…
Bluebells at St Anthony
A new publication in the Poem by Post Series, in collaboration with visual artist Susan Bennetta, a creative outcome arising from a recent residency “Making Light Work”, at the former Paraffin Store to the Lighthouse (see Research page). I responded to one of Susan’s cyanotypes, bluebells. This hand-sewn pamphlet is available from our press.
Bluebells at St Anthony…
From the lighthouse
along cliff track
between them
(argand and electric lamp)
an empty stretcher
wooden, bed-flat, hung up.
Here, above the sea
at the paraffin store
you make cyanotypes
potential for light contained
scrape-marks on old stone
miracle and lost things
hedge and kissing gate
for the years between
you choose bluebells
and this poem, you.
After day’s light
distance safe
a secret place
is wildflower deep
coffin, cattle-trough
by churchyard path
…in Roseland
© Philip Bennetta, 2018
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