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From Winifred Mokβs #ekphrastic poem, βLisaβ:
βI try to sit still. I imagine my own hand at oil painting, curves of his face, the sfumato of sunlight through glass.β
afterpoetry.com/poem/mar-19...
From Sarah Raybould's #ekphrastic poem 'Her Poppy Earrings':
'Her earrings are a poppy field are a battlefield, are drops of blood
in trenches roll out to sea, are a pricked finger in a fairy tale ... '
afterpoetry.com/poem/may-31...
From #ekphrastic poem 'Fly' by @markantonyowen.com, in tribute to the late Kathryn Bevis:
'We find you not in IT IS but WE ARE β
see you, always, in the hearthome.
Wherever there is loverise, YOU ARE.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/may-16...
From Kate Vanhinsbergh's #ekphrastic poem, 'Brief Visit to a Barcelona Sex Castle':
' ... this whole castle clings
to the glottal step of the gy,
the glassy-eyed fantasy
of fucking some sugar junkie ... '
afterpoetry.com/poem/apr-17...
From Leia Butler's #ekphrastic poem, '1000-1' ...
'We are swapping secrets,
In the leaves,
In the trunks,
In the petals,
//
(There are 754 pieces left)'
afterpoetry.com/poem/apr-02...
From Fokkina McDonnell's #ekphrastic poem, 'The Avid Reader':
'We see the middle-aged man
carrying a hat, smoking a pipe,
because Graham inhabits him.
All artists are obsessives:
these giant light boxes,
demanding our devotion.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/mar-03...
From Susan Trofimow's #ekphrastic poem 'The Lion in the Room':
'Almost too late, the light arrived β
coming from a window I couldnβt see.Β Β
The lion had drawn himself closer,
and with him the scent of cream.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/feb-17...
From Sarah Doyle's #ekphrastic poem, 'The Bacchanal of the Andrians':
'Ribald, lathered, blotto-hearted,
bladdered, adrenalin-thrilled.
Old habits of abstinence, cast
aside, for insatiable infractions.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/may-01...
When I launched my first online poetry journal @iamb.uk in February 2020, I included myself among its initial 20 poets. I've so far resisted the temptation to feature my own work in my second journal @afterpoetry.com. That changes tomorrow, with the publication of this tribute to poet Kathryn Bevis.
