September 2011 ~ Helen Hagemann

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Poem for the Day - Kewpie Doll (revised at Annaghmakerrig, Ireland)

Kewpie Doll And nothing that moves on land or sea Will seem so beautiful to me – Equestrienne, Rachel Field Little doll, carried home from carnivalé, rustles her Giselle skirt in the wind. She is as old as Ray Lawler's Summer of the 17th Doll. Her faded lipstick pouts an "O" as the mouths of girls, words forming seduction...

I just love the names of these northern Irish towns. e.g Cootehill, Clones, Rockcorry. I'm in thick pastoral country, a rich green canopy of trees, cows and emerald fields. The roads are like winding narrow pathways. Suddenly you come into a town, like a time-warp, Irish architecture as solid as its stonework frontage. Immemorial, its land and its culture dating back...

Video poem for the Day - Wild in the Dry Grass

Wild in the Dry Grass by Helen Hagemann from H2 Design on Vimeo. This poem also runs at the end of the video (best viewed small) Wild in the Dry Grass in wide brim hats they rise from the crest of earth meet discreetly cousins in white coats like lovers man & woman the soil, a container to look briefly into as if they had eyes as if they had lips to share under umbrella or table before the blue heat of day curls...

Melbourne Poets Union 'The Attitude of Cups' launch at Collected Works

Melbourne Poets Union's anthology The Attitude of Cups (about tea, wine & coffee) will be launched at Collected Works on Saturday, 15th November. Left Over Wine is a poem first published by Walter Ruhlmann in English/French @ mgversion2>datura and will be in the publication. I'm absolutely pleased to be in the book with such notable poets as: Ron Pretty, Jennifer...