Tonight we have a reading with Hilary Menos, Christopher Southgate, and Julie-ann Rowell over at the Devon and Exeter Institution on Cathedral Green. It's an absolutely stunning venue; an old library, all oak panels and delicious smelling books.
But this isn't an advertisement, rather I thought I'd post a poem on this year's theme of Stars. This is something I wrote a while ago. I'm not sure how good it is, but it's National Poetry Day, so I thought I'd share it anyway.
Discovering Sleeplessness
I remember the first time
I could not sleep;
I lay with gaping eyes, trembling.
Looking to the night for answers,
I saw each star,
impossible light, overflowing.
I remember the first time
I felt myself pierced, hanging;
a bright paralysis,
My glare visible to you, yours to me,
faintly, on a clear night,
or masked in cloud, silenced.
I remember the first time
the eleven year old me
discovered my place in space,
Burning in gas and ice,
a glow falling short,
landing light-years too late.
I remember the first time
I could not reach,
I lay with gaping eyes, trembling.
And my top poetry recommendation for National Poetry Day is Daniel Sluman's Absence has a weight of its own. He's stupidly talented for a 25 year old, and the collection will move you. Oh, and I interviewed him here.
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