I’ve mentioned before my poetic aunt, Annabelle Despard, but
I’m going to mention her again because one of her poems has been chosen by the
Southbank Centre in London as one of the 50 best love poems of the last 50
years. It’s called ‘Should you die first’ and is to be found in her poetry
collection Dressed in Water (Dionysia
Press 2011) and in the anthology Being
Human (Bloodaxe 2011).
The poems will be read out at the Southbank Centre on 20 July.
You can read Annabelle’s poem on the Dionysia website, and about the selection
in the Guardian of 2 July.
The list includes poems from 30 different countries. Annabelle, like my mother, is half Norwegian. She lives in Norway and writes her poems in both English and Norwegian.
I’m very proud of her.
Hi Dear Belinda - how lovely to have a published poetic aunty - I'll look her up in my Bloodaxe poetry books. I have a poetic niece who I'm so proud of too...
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your message re the flowers in Her Outdoors - I tried to comment but it wouldn't accept - odd you can't comment on mine either....Welcome back from Greece too - loved all the photos and comments - made me want to get on a plane and go.... TXX