Here poetry is free, and it is freed from the preconceptions and tastes of editors, publishers and booksellers. The advantage of publishing poetry on-line is that time, distance, money and gatekeeping no longer stand between writer and reader. Read on, and feel free to leave a comment.
‘… most experiences are unsayable’, said Rilke.
That crowd’s dispersing anyway
and its famous din’s gone with it
Can’t you hear it dying down out there?
Permacrisis was last year’s word
but we enjoy its trochees now
as they stumble off the tongue
One moment there were flashes
Now there’s only this light on
over a table that holds the news
Admit that there’s no connection then
between events and how it feels
to be another you
5 June 2023
posted by Grant Duncan at 7:11 PM
Grant is a political theorist, media commentator, and nonfiction writer. He is the author of many academic publications on social policy and political thought and has previously specialised in: the institutional management of chronic pain; and the political uses of 'happiness'. See How to Rule? The Arts of Government from Antiquity to the Present (Routledge).
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