NEW POEMS:
Matthew Duggan – ‘The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be’
Sometimes. when I read a poem, it’s about that one line that sticks in your head. Matthew Duggan‘s poem ‘The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be starts with a title that takes you straight into a thoughtspace. It makes you think of the past, the present, the things you’ve seen, the things you haven’t, your imagination and your reality.
I have to thank Clare Manicom for sticking with me on publishing her poem, ‘Holy Places’. which I think I’ve been sitting on for nearly 3 years as I struggled through my own mental health anxieties and crises that kept me from looking at poetry. When I came back to it, again and again, I felt such a guilt over not publishing it, and finally I have it online. I love the feeling of object permanence it creates, between a metaphysical experience and the physical factual history of what a church is
Mark Mansfield‘s ‘The Odds’ compliments Matthew Duggan’s poem with it’s own exploration of memory, past and present. After all, even the 2 minutes from the start of this post to the end of it is a memory in the past now.
Finally for February is Alex Rourke‘s ‘Judgement’. Keeping on that theme of imagination, Rourke’s poem goes further into the unconscious. Again it’s a poem about contrast, the difference between imagination and reality, between the person I am and the person I would like to be. I particularly liked this line: ‘there’s no such thing as a purposeless/wanderer strayed into the night to steal the scene.’
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