... to Rus Bowden, whose poem "Walking the Dock" was among those featured in the Guardian's poetry workshop this past week: Ghosts, written. Rus is the man behind Poetry and Poets in Rags at the Interboard Poetry Community, which has posted its Winning Poems for February.
Regarding Esther Morgan's comment on Rus's poem:
the piercings in my skin growing,
here resurrected, however not
ascended, and you for this moment
know that latter vital step of grace
did not go as planned
Think Jesus, Esther.
Hi Frank,
ReplyDeleteThanks very much for the congrats, your terrific read of "Walking the Dock" and for linking to the winning IBPC poems for February.
My thanks in turn go to the poets at The Writers Block, who helped me workshop the poem rigorously. Among others, Jude Goodwin is there, who placed three times on The Guardian's shortlist, and AnnMarie Eldon, whose skills and gifts you know well, as you link to her blog. I also workshopped the poem at a non-IBPC forum, but one with high standards and excellent readers, The Gazebo.
My congrats, in turn go to Toni Clark, whose poem "Haunting My Husband" made the shortlist in Esther Morgan's "Ghosts, written" as well. In fact, this is two months running for Antonia Clark from The Gazebo.
Congrats also to Michaela A Gabriel who workshops at Inside The Writer's Studio, where she is known as Michi, and who I know to give excellent feedback from several years back, and anyone else can see writes super poems, such as "Bedside" also on the shortlist of the Guardian's "Poetry workshop" for February.
Yours,
Rus