We’re kicking off May at the Poetry Room with the wonderful Little Gods by Jacob Polley (Picador, 2006). The book is Cumbrian-born Polley’s second collection: a writer who, although young in poet-years, is also an award-winning novelist, film-maker and has been discussed in the media as a future poet laureate.
Little Gods meditates on love, loss, the natural world and the passage of time in poems that are subtle, technically adept and surprising. Polley borrows from the gothic while also evoking a grounded contemporary world of bananas, plastic dog shit and cheese spread. The poems we will be looking at in particular are:
The Owls
You
Greenwich
Telephone
Mirror
Morning
Sally Somewhere
Decree
City in Winter
Looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday 1 May at 6pm-8pm on 3rd Floor of the City Library, Newcastle. (Turn right out of the lift and head towards the circle of chairs next to the back wall! ) If you have never been before, make this the month and get May off to a poetic start!