"He weighs his words carefully. Every moment he evaluates the word. I should add: every moment he evaluates silence." - Jean Daive, _Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan_

This book is amazing.

#PaulCelan #JeanDaive #UnderTheDome #amreadingpoetry

“forget the ink, the milk, the blood—
all was washed clean with the flood
we rose up from the falling waters
the fallen rain's own sons and daughters

and none of this, none of this matters.”
— from “Rain” by Don Paterson

#AmReadingPoetry #rain #storm #flood

Who listens
like lichen listens

assiduous millions of black
and golden ears

from Lichen by Jen Hadfield (in Byssus, 2014)

#Lichen #Poetry #AmReadingPoetry #JenHadfield #Byssus #AmQuoting

5 or so years ago, @mister_roy gave me a copy of #FastSpeakingWoman by #AnneWaldman for #Christmas. Took me a while to get round to it, but I've been slowly reading it this year, and I thinks it's aces. I love her incantatory deluge-of-words-and-images style much more than I thought I would. And watching her perform in videos is mesmerising. I'm doubtless not saying anything that hasn't been said before, just #SharingTheJoy

#Poets #Poetry #AmReadingPoetry #Bookstodon

https://poets.org/poem/fast-speaking-woman-part-1

Currently #AmReading
* The Roads of the Roma - #IanHancock et al (eds)
* The Kids - #HannahLowe
* The Stone Age - #JenHadfield
* Space Baby - #SuzannahEvans

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