The poem, along with others at the back of my book, "Fresh Out of the Sky" (2021), was part of a project with other poets and scholars, based on Apollinaire's "Bestiary" as illuminated by Raoul Dufy and Graham Sutherland. The whole was edited by Sarah Kay and Timothy Matthews. My own contribution consisted of poems on beasts made up of a rhymed quatrain, following Apollinaire’s pattern, and a short prose fantasy based on the appearance or associations of the creature.
George Szirtes on "Stag Beetle" |
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Wong May Wins the Windham-Campbell Prizes
"Wong May, a poet who has lived in Dublin for the past four decades, has been honoured this evening with one of the world’s richest international literary awards, the Windham-Campbell Prizes, worth $165,000 (€150,000). 'This is a complete surprise,' she said of her award, 'miraculous coming from America! I have gone underground with my poetry for 40 years.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Rita Wong (Vancouver, BC, unceded Coast Salish territories) on Ecopoetry Now
"In the context of a colonized society that reduces freedom into superficial consumer choices or bluntly eliminates that freedom through systemic violence, writing can question unjust hierarchies and unthinking habits that need to be reconsidered. It can make space for the imagination to move swiftly as dragonflies at dusk, or as easily as otters floating affectionately together. It makes room for a world where every creature has a place, every life form matters." |
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