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Jennie lives in Totnes with three Burmese cats and is active in poetry around South West, belongs to Two Rivers Poets, Weir Poets and Moor Poets and loves performing. First collection How to be Naked was published by Oversteps Books in April 2010.
Shivers, haphazard sneezes, cramps
rack a body that’s been through enough –
now there’s too much melting, a fevered sky
ground that’s lost its will to nourish.
We fish around with our fingertips
try to braille our way through landscapes
deformed with cracks and rockfalls;
backwards, forwards, stabbing at shadows.
It’s not got this way under one night’s cover –
wearing dark glasses was a matter of choice.
You save seeds, I search out safe places for the bees
cradle one on my palm, watch it flail
wish I held a blue-green, parasite-free globe
could clothe it in velvet, launch it into a clean sky.
Poem published: The Rialto.
Publications:
collection, How to be Naked, 2010, Oversteps Books, ISBN 978-1-9068561-3-7. £8;
CD, Something about a woman, £5 + 50p p&p, direct from Jennie
Overall winner of the SecondLightLive Poetry Competition, Round 2, Nov 08 to Sep 09. Listen to Jennie reading There’s Something about a Woman Swallowing Flames
address:
23 Brooklands
Totnes
Devon
TQ9 5AR
tel: 01803 840541
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