
Well, I’m totally pretending that having a poem published in Berlin Lit is about as good as visiting Berlin. Isn’t it???
Maybe not, I’ll keep trying to convince myself.
Anyway, that’s my problem. You can check out the strange, little poem recently published at Berlin Lit. It’s called On being alive. It’s an odd poem that came from writing experiments I’ve been trying since my last collection came out.
For this particular poem I was playing around with the idea of using a cut up technique, all the words in this poem came from Sydney Morning Herald articles that contained the word ‘petri’ – yep, there are heaps. Lots of science articles, but also plenty of ‘cultural petri dish’ style articles. You could easily write a ‘Petri’ sequence! Special shout out to the people named Petri out there – I’m looking at you Petri Pitkanen – who added entirely unexpected elements to the poem.
Here’s an extract, head over to Berlin Lit to read the whole poem – and a whole bunch of other pieces in the winter issue.
There is flesh grown in a petri dish
that pretends to be alive
sometimes pretends to be
human
and we listen as the meat talks
about the marble in its thigh,
provenance, all the grass it hasn’t eaten,
how for years it was suckled
and called a different name.
Thrill of Berlin without the airfare or need for accommodations. Congratulations Rico! Love the poem which has me reaching in my bookshelf for Bone Ink.
Thanks Chris, that’s great to hear!
Rico we visited Berlin there years ago . This poem caught my attention. Let’s follow our blogs. Anita
Thanks, I’ll jump over and have a look at yours.
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Thanks Chris, that’s great to hear!