![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoyed the poems featured in the programme, especially the following: ‘Kissing’ by Fleur Adcock and ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese 38: First time he kissed me, he but only kissed’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.Īnd I found a few more: ‘The Kiss’ by Sarah Teasdale and ‘Kiss Me Slowly’ by Sylvia Chidi.Ī week too late for Valentine’s Day, the challenge is to write a poem about kissing, a special kiss that still haunts you, a peck, a snog, a kiss hello or a kiss goodbye. It was commented that a kiss is wordless you know it’s a bad kiss if you think in sentences, while a good kiss removes all the words from your head, and writing a poem about a kiss is like putting the words back in. A kiss was described as “both the hardest thing to write a poem about, but also the most like a poem experience”. ![]() On 2 nd February, the poet Rachel Long, in conversation with Caroline Bird, Richard Scott and Fleur Adcock, explored the craft of writing a kiss, “How might we hold the wordless intimacy of the act – its blurring of selves and disrupted time.” It began with a question: “Are you haunted by any kisses?” and continued with a wonderful journey through sensual, erotic and funny kisses, the ones that “we describe over and over” and “the kisses we keep a secret”. If you follow me on Facebook, you will know that my favourite radio programmes and podcasts are on BBC Sounds, which is where I got the inspiration for today’s Poetics. ![]() Hello dVerse Poets and welcome to Tuesday Poetics, hosted this week by me, Kim. ![]()
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