About Text Size: larger | normal | smaller
Likestarlings is a place for talking in poems. We pair poets with poets and they write a sequence of six new works by responding in turn to one another. Our palaver blog goes beyond poetry to discuss collaboration in theory and in practice. Please take a look, and feel free to add comments, opinions and suggestions here. Read poems here

‘Merely Circulating'


The poem is you                 needs be
And we can be cool about it
In the slow moments
Of an August afternoon,
Nobody comes and
Therefore the place you built
Remains impregnable,
Out of sight
No such           evidence of circumstance
Only clothes
You stood up in.

And maybe the poem can only say standing
Nowhere in the reckoning
Where the road hangs
And the river
Ruptures to become the plain,
But the truth is
Having that coke with you
Was a contract between us,
A document
Not anybody witnessed
No such         name.

--

David Herd

Read the ongoing conversation between David Herd and Sarah Vap

 

August 13th
In this illuminating excerpt from their pre- and intra-poetic conversation, Vincent and Barry consider which directions to take their dialogue-collab. They ruminate on themes and forms, giving fresh insights into the process, and begin to hint at how poem...
July 27th
In the expansive and marvelous new conversation between Valerie Witte & Aidan Semmens (now complete), Witte’s first poem is funny and tense, putting minor and major disasters, including the threat of flood, alongside one another in the form of a...