We just posted the last poem from Chris McCabe to complete the conversation with Claire Crowther.
It’s a brilliant conversation and one that’s difficult to write about – one of the most subtly responsive we’ve had. Chains work in very different ways, and in this one each poet seems to have disassembled the last poem, then reassembled it to form their own. Interlinking images of clothing, marriage, cosmology and trains, come together in surprisingly violent encounters. The focus of each poem might be different (McCabe finishes up in a very specific place, attending a concert of The Fall), but they feel like members of the same family.
Huge thanks to them for taking part.
Crowther-McCabe was the only conversation in progress, and therefore marked with a star* [hence throwaway title]. But there is plenty more to come. We’re really excited about three new conversations which are just beginning, between Luke Kennard & Richard Price, Tom Chivers & Emily Berry, and Jen Wainwright & Loveday Why. We’re pleased to have recruited poets by approaching those we are familiar with and respect, and from expressions of interest emailed in. The standard of submissions is very high.
Poems from Jen Wainwright & Loveday Why will be up on the site very soon. But for Luke Kennard & Richard Price, Tom Chivers & Emily Berry you’ll have to wait until our Livestarlings event in London on 25th June, where they’ll be exclusively unveiled. They’ll be up on the site after that.
CK