Two sonnets from The Live Album by Kat Payne Ware, published by Broken Sleep Books on 31 July 2021 TRANSPORTATION The fragility, juiciness, desirability and proper taste and smell of meat are the most important qualities of pork for the consumer. – Urszula Ostaszewska, ‘The impact of transport on the quality of pig meat’ […]
Kat Payne Ware
The Live Album by Kat Payne Ware
The Live Album is the debut pamphlet of poetry by UEA alumna Kat Payne Ware and is published by Broken Sleep Books on 31 July. Kat graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) last year. She is the founder and editor of SPOONFEED, an online literary magazine for creative and experimental food writing. Her own […]
Two Poems from THE LIVE ALBUM
BLOOD Blood is associated not with true life, but with its pale and ghostly counterpart. Dennis J. McCarthy, ‘The Symbolism of Blood and Sacrifice’ I …spin ..my .red wool in the purificatory rite of ..a ..spider dropping stitches…..onto…..steel altars…My…šurpu..lifts all…kinds….of…..curses and…..bodily…….pains. Let..me..sing..for…you a…red…song…Let…my shedding…..raise….the “strengthless……..dead” in……………supplication that….you….and….they may…confer.…Do…you wish……..to………change your…….answer.…….Pet food……..and…a…….half life…of…millennia,…..or Circe’s………punishment. […]
