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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – St Rose of Lima’s Revenge by Geraldine Clarkson
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is a poem entitled ‘St Rose of Lima’s Revenge’ by Geraldine Clarkson. This poem was commended in the 2015 National Poetry Competition. Geraldine Clarkson is the winner of the Anne Born Prize 2015. In 2015 she also won the Poetry London Competition, Magma Editors’ Prize and the 2015 Ver Prize. She was included in The Best British Poetry 2014 (Salt) and she was ‘Selected Poet’ in Magma 58. She has two poems in This Line is Not for Turning: An Anthology of Contemporary British Prose Poetry (Cinnamon Press). She was a Writers’ Centre Norwich Escalator winner in 2011 and she was shortlisted…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – Ageing- By Ruth Fainlight
I wanted to celebrate my birthday with you this weekend, tomorrow I will be another year older and I am bursting with gratitude to you all. We are fertilised by time thus allowing our individual uniqueness to blossom. Each one of our powerful hearts, illuminate and inspire, enabling us to conjoin and to share. Thank you to each and everyone of you, we are one! This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is a poem aptly entitled ‘Ageing’ by Ruth Fainlight.“Fainlight provided a role model for women poets at a time when sexism and tokenism were nastily predominant” The Guardian. Born in New York in 1931, Fanlight is a…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron (George Gordon) – Including @24hourproject
In honour of the @24hourproject, a street photography project designed to document streets of the world over a 24 hour period, created by Renzo Grande @aliveinnyc and Sam Smotherman @whittiersam, we have decided to feature a wonderful poem by Lord Byron the most flamboyant, notorious and fashionable of the major Romantic poets of the day. The poem is entitled ‘She Walks in Beauty’ and I really feel it epitomises the essence of the @24hourproject. To tell you a little more about the @24hourproject, essentially it began as a personal project to document two different cities for one full day. That same year, other photographers became interested in covering it too…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – Frenzied by Sarah Howe
Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Her first book, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus, 2015), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Sunday Times / PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Born in Hong Kong in 1983 to an English father and Chinese mother, she moved to England as a child. Her pamphlet, A Certain Chinese Encyclopedia (Tall-lighthouse, 2009), won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. Source: ThePoetrySociety I have matched @dannytorabi’s image with this poem. You can follow him on Instagram here. To view the others we have published in…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – Lunchbox Love Note
As it is Mother’s Day tomorrow here in the UK, I thought it would be a good idea to team our Saturday Poetry theme with an appropriate poem. This one entitled, Lunchbox Love Note by Kenn Nesbitt seemed to fit the bill perfectly. It is a sweet poem about a young boy who discovers a heart shaped note in his lunchbox and ponders whether he may have a secret admirer or two. When he finally opens the note, after great suspense, he discovers the note is from his mother, just saying ‘I love you’. Having slipped many a note, with those exact words into my children’s lunchboxes when they were…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Spring Time’ by Harper Lee
Harper Lee died yesterday at the age of 89, she was of course, the famous author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Her story of race relations and legal injustice set in the American south in the 1930s, first published in 1960, won the Pulitzer prize for fiction in 1961, was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1962 and went on to sell more than 40m copies worldwide. It has never been out of print and is perhaps the most widely loved American novel of the past half-century. The book was seen by many as saying something good, something important about America itself. Not many people know but can probably imagine…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Having a Coke with You’ by Frank O’Hara
As it is Valentine’s weekend we thought it would be prudent to bring you this romantically beautiful poem. In his book, The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, David Lehman correctly comments about O’Hara’s poetry: “The surface of O’Hara’s poems is so dazzling, with taste so fine and sensibility so rare and appealing, that it comes as a surprise to investigate and realize that there are depths of meaning in his offhanded poems that seem as disarmingly immediate and perishable as telephone calls. The prejudice against humor and lightheartedness in poetry has caused some readers to overlook not only the lyric pathos informing O’Hara’s work…
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Mobile Photography/Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘The Brilliant Image’ by Hafiz
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is a poem entitled ‘The Brilliant Image’ by Hafiz. From a collection of 59 poems by Hafiz (1320-1389), called ‘renderings’ rather than translations. Daniel Ladinsky successfully brought this popular Persian poet to life in the West. Ladinsky describes Hafiz as a ‘playwright who acts all the parts: the lover, the disciple, the Master, the Guide, the voice of God, and sometimes even the reader’. Source: ‘I Heard God Laughing:” Renderings of Hafiz: by Daniel Ladinsky. I hope you enjoy this poem, I have matched @Draman – Roger Guetta’s image with this poem. You can follow him on Instagram here. To view the others…
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Mobile Photography/Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘The One’ by Lang Leav
Rishi Dastidar, Assistant Editor of Poetry Magazine explains poetry, (in a sense), “it’s important to remember that poetry is not just about the uncontrolled expression of how you feel but how you shape that expression. What makes you a poet is learning the craft, spending time reading other poets and bringing writerly tools to the emotions you are trying to convey“. The reason I was reading this was because of the ‘uprising’ of Instapoets on Instagram. These poets are connecting, moving their readers and achieving commercial success with it. “It’s actually a great subversion of the debates on narcissism and self-obsession which always accompany social media”, says Dastidar. “Posting a…
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Mobile Photography/Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘A Childhood’ by Robin Robertson
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is a poem entitled ‘A Childhood’ by Robin Robertson. I hope you enjoy this poem, I have matched centerforbalancecliff with this image. Source: The New Yorker To view the others in our Mobile Photography/Art Saturday Poetry section, please go here. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer
