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‘Hum’ by Tara Skurtu (Poetry Wales 55.1)
for Indré Are you aching? The poet held my handat the edge of the world’s smallest village.Think of pain as a plane. She wanted meto forgive what I couldn’t forgive.Only the side door to the Assumptionof Mary was unlocked—she kneltat the Virgin’s painted feet and prayed,and I took pictures of a crucified Jesusin a fishbowl…
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Writing prompt #9
Create your own poetic form.
Virna Teixeira on how she writes a poem
“It is a kind of temporary obsession”
Writing prompt #8
And there in your periphery, a family dressed in the last century, huddled in one room telling stories.
Azad Ashim Sharma on how he writes a poem
“I have to come to terms with how the very act of writing poetry for me must both resist and succumb to a racialised assemblage.”
Writing prompt #7
Ingesting the secret ingredient. (It’s tomato ketchup, not love.) Write a recipe.
Simon Mundy on how he writes a poem
Slowly, in starts and fits, Words resistant, fighting each other Not to come out, who must go first Into that opening line of fire. Who should lead the second paragraph, Demand a full stop. Now, Before the meaning becomes serious, The commission fulfilled. Why not go for coffee instead, Phone a friend, drive me to…