Poem Brut #90 – The Chips are Down Here in Lockdown
The Chips are Down Here in Lockdown, a work which was born out of the Covid 19 Lockdown. An outlet for the confusion, rage and helplessness that I often find myself experiencing during this unprecedented event, and an attempt to make some sense of it.
Look What the Cat Dragged In is a series of musings on the moral dilemmas that my cats confront me with, confessional in tone, they also delve into the more complex relationships that humans have with animals.
I like to follow my obsessions and see where they lead. Ideas often start with a seed from my everyday and not so everyday experiences which I then tease out into a larger forum to eke out more complex issues that lurk within. Turning the microcosm of daily encounters into the macrocosm of more universal and shared human experiences.
In the 90th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Carolyn Hashimoto.
3:AM in Lockdown 55: Katy Mahood
Temporary Filling By Katy Mahood. Day six of isolation. Today, I replaced my husband’s filling. Lucky for us, my dad had some old packs of dental filler from before his retirement. He offered to guide proceedings via video call, but by the time we’d hustled the kids upstairs it was gone nine o’clock, so Matt […]
Vahni Capildeo’s Skin Can Hold: Assuming the Monster Posture
With greater wishfulness comes greater resistance to its fulfilment, and the reason why freedom seems such a torturous and tantalising concept in Capildeo’s poetry is that in this quest to reconcile opposing forms the ‘posture’ assumed means that there is an identification with the opposing force. In ‘from the End of the Poem’ the opening stanza begins with an iterative exploration of what, presumably, the end of the poem constitutes to the poet (‘The end of the poem / the end of the poem happened before / the end of the poem happened before it […]’).
Liam Bishop reviews Skin Can Hold by Vahni Capildeo.