Tuesday Poem's communal birthday poem is signed and sealed with a brush ...
It's been going for three weeks - a giant global birthday
poem with 18 poets from four countries each posting a stanza a day, and the
last stanza was posted yesterday by Wellingtonian Tim Jones.
'It's an inspired end to a fabulous poem,' says co-curator
Mary McCallum. 'Genius, really.'
The poem took its lead from jazz music - each stanza
building on what had gone before - using rhythm, sounds, words, and
phrases.
Mary and co-curator Claire Beynon comment on how the poem
developed:
'Delicious things happen in the poem - the sinuous and playful
winding and rewinding of the whispering and whiskers of Lily who may or may not
be a woman or a cat or a plant... oh memory/metronome who could forget that
teasing/tail, the scratch/catches and oh boy, the oboe ... and more, so much
more. Such delights! Such fun! Just read the comments to see how much we, and
our readers, enjoyed it. We're going to miss the daily excitement.'
The poem has been titled 'Scratch' and the whole
extraordinary thing is up on Tuesday
Poem today. The post also remembers talented NZ poet Sarah Broom who passed
away this week aged 40.
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