Poems and Photos

​I’ve always thought photographs and poems have a lot in common particularly single shots and short catching-the-moment poems.
 
I take a lot of photographs and make them into cards with a poem on the back.  For the last twenty years I’ve also done calendars with a photo and poem for each month. They are for sale at craft fairs and open house occasions.

​I’ve also been collaborating with digital artist Pat Hodson and sound artist Jessica Hodson. This has resulted in two DVDs where I have written a poem in response to Pat’s images and Jessica has created a sound track using my reading of the poem and adding music and sound.   And of course our book called Iceland Stories.   
​See our website: http://artinthefreezer.co.uk/wiki/doku.php

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Chalkwork  
I stride the green rim of England at Beachy Head
wary of the scalloped overhang, close enough
to watch the sea's claws scratch the pebbles,  
its milky tongues of foam catlick the beach,
​curl into the meringue-white cliffs. ​​
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​Elephant
Outside the Beaubourg, fountain and water,
toyshop-bright with plastic: Tinguely's
elephant head, balanced on its own reflection,
gives us a bouncing, sideways glance.

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​Tree in Snow
Leaves from the old year, brown and crisp,
hold on to sunlight, melting the snow
into a green grass shadow.
The other trees offer bare branches
to winter and the new year.

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