Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, Special Edition on Humour June 2024.
The poet’s eleven top listicles purporting to be poetry,
poem by Sarah St Vincent Welch.
The poet’s eleven top listicles
purporting to be poetry
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- eleven odes impersonating sonnets
- ten self-reflexive metaphors
- nine line endings that won’t return
- eight rhymes continually forgotten
- seven cinquains of six lines
- six slams that opened doors
- five elegies for our undead
- four haikus that married epics
- three ghazals that ate themselves
- two iambs that skipped in place
- one listicle of listicles
© Sarah St Vincent Welch
Sarah St Vincent Welch is a Canberra-based writer and image-maker. She is known for her #litchalk practice (chalking her poetry on the footpaths at arts festivals) and is the founder of the Kindred Trees project kindredtrees.com.au, which asks Canberra poets to respond to a local tree in poetry. Her ‘chalk borders’ (Flying Islands Books 2021) won a Canberra Circle of Critics Award. She edited the ‘Tree’ edition of FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art, and blogs at sarahstvincentwelch.com.