You’ll know if you’ve been checking in here in any way that I’m obsessing over Harry Nilsson, in general, and also writing what is becoming a sequence — possibly even a whole book — of “Harry poems”.
So I turned up to the Poetry in Motion open mic last night to give a couple of them a run. Not bad. Apart from saying “Harry Wilson” because the light on stage wasn’t great and I’m an idiot! But hey, I walked that back quickly enough.
Anyway, here they are if you want to have a listen.
Not sure how I felt after reading them out. Which is a good thing at this point I think. Not sure if these are poems for performance or the page. My feeling at this point is they’re somewhere in between — which is an interesting, and slightly worrying state. The good thing is it means there’s work still to be done.
There’s always work still to be done.
