Two Poems in Survision

It is exciting to have two poems in Irish literary magazine Survision.

Survision describe themselves as:

SurVision is an international biannual online poetry magazine established in Ireland in March 2017 as a platform for new Irish and international Surrealist and Irrealist poetry in English.

They are surreal poems, as you can see Survision is a surrealist magazine, and the poems are Tight-Lipped Worms Between Thoughts and My Abandoned Cupboard. They were written many years apart. The second was written about a memory and one of the images was of a building site I spotted out of the window when I was on a Word Factory short story workshop in Soho, London, a long time ago. It was a mundane image but for some reason my mind wanted to elaborate on it. Funny how minds do that sort of thing. I wasn’t even thinking of writing a poem and certainly, many years later I wasn’t expecting that peculiar image to bob up.

The worms poem was written during lockdown and although I didn’t think about it at the time, my mind was wriggling into all the nooks and crannies of the house and trying to draw things out that might be lurking in normally unobtrusive places like the rim of the skirting boards and a door jambe, or sounds that might not be audible but are definitely there, and the characterising them.

Here are the poems: Survision Issue 12 I hope you enjoy them.