| September 2005 | Café Society's Poetry News Update |
| September 2005 | Café Society's Poetry News Update |
 Photo by Mike Grenville | An Interview With Janis Mackay
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Janis Mackay is an accomplished poet, actress and voice teacher from Edinburgh. She tells us:
Janis recently left Artemis School of Speech and Drama to concentrate more on her writing, and to freelance as a voice teacher in her home town, Edinburgh. This interview was conducted by email shortly afterwards.
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And there is so much that hasn't really changed - the rich still get richer -
the highland culture which is so rich in poetry and music is fantastic - and
pray God it survives. And the fact that even we photographed him, as though
sensing something wild, old and beautiful is slipping away. And maybe photos
will record and preserve - so we're left with an image and the real thing has
gone.
And that all sounds a bit depressing. But thank God people like him are
playing bagpipes, speaking gaelic, as though within who they are they bear the
whole tradition of a culture.
Poetry L & T: When and why did you first start writing poetry, Janis?
Janis:
Apart from the sort of poetry that perhaps many of us sit down and
write to get feelings onto paper or to talk to something - I began writing
poetry three years ago. I have wanted to 'be a writer' since I was about two I
think, then realised I was getting older, still had this dream - and thought
at 42 I should do something about it. I enrolled in a certificate course at
University of Sussex and did creative writing, specialising in poetry, for a
year. This meant I had to produce a new poem each week and that I had an
audience for that poem. I then went on to do the MA in creative writing and
personal development, which I have just finished, and again I specialised in
poetry. I have worked for many years as a voice teacher and often speak other
poet's words, so I have been imbibing great poetry. Another 'why' is because I
find writing poetry a healthy thing to do - it is a way of meeting myself that
is challenging, demanding and intense. And of course for all these reasons I
can find many reasons not to write - not to come to that meeting. I met with
Don Paterson recently and he said it almost kills him to write a poem and I
felt I knew what he meant.
Poetry L & T: Who are your favourite poets?
Janis:
Well, having just mentioned Don Paterson I will start with him. I
think some of his work is wonderful (like 'a private bottling') - but
sometimes he uses too many big words for me. I'd really like my poetry to be
widely accesible. Thinking of wide accessiblity and favourite poets - Robert
Burns. What can you say? He's got the heart, the pulse, the land, the love,
the music...
and I like Kathleen Jamie, EAvan Boland, Rose Flint, and the greats like John
Keats, W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Rilke, Neruda, Paul Celan, Norman Macaig...
Poetry L & T: I gather from your bio that you work as a voice teacher, helping poets to
improve their public performances. What do you find most satisfying about
this work?
Janis:
It is fascinating to work on that edge between writing and speaking.
I think they fertisilise each other. When you speak what you have written you
have a stronger feel for the 'feel' of the poem and how it sounds. I think it
belongs to finding your voice - on and off the page. I recently ran a workshop
where participants did creative writing (in relation to voice) and then spoke
what they had written. For some people it is challenging, for others
liberating but it goes without saying that a poet who can speak their poetry
well is going to be more enjoyed at readings. When you speak what you have
written you can really own the words and it deepens the whole gesture of
poetry as communication. It also brings the poem to life in a way that the
page cannot.
Poetry L & T: Edinburgh is a wonderful city (I have been there with my Scottish husband,
Tom). Do you find that Edinburgh sometimes inspires your poetry, even when you are away from home?
Janis:
Scotland has hugely influeced my writing and part of my poetry
collection was in pursuit of 'home' and this took me up to the Highlands. I
was not brought up in the Highlands but Scotland is a small enough country
that you feel at home in all of it. Edinburgh is my next poetic project. It's
funny - although I am from Edinburgh and was brought up here I haven't written
much about it, as though it was too big, too close. Now that I am living in
Edinburgh again I plan to write poetry in response to the city. But further to
inspiration - having been brought up in a very beautiful city and having
experienced years of Edinburgh Festivals I am sure that this stimulates art
and creativity. Plus my family and relations are artistic. Or you walk down
the Mound and along George Street - the city is laid out like a sonnet - a
beautiful human sized form.
Poetry L & T: Annette Armstrong (interviewed in August) tells me that you are an
experienced actress. Do you think that acting tuition can help poets to make their poetry recitals more dynamic?
Janis:
Sure - as long as the speaking of poetry is authentic and rooted in
the body and the heart. Generally I don't like when actors perform poetry in
that sort of now I'm performing a poem voice - although that put on stuff does
seem to be out of fashion thank God. I loved the actor in Four Weddings and a
Funeral speaking the Auden poem 'Funeral Blues.' But certainly some acting
experience can help you to feel more at home in front of an audience and also
free in using, or not using, gesture - and simply but importantly projecting
the voice.
Poetry L & T: Annette also told me that you were recently a guest at the East Grinstead
Poetry Café. It sounds as though that was an enjoyable evening; I would like to know more...
Janis:
Annette is doing great things for poetry. This forum of poetry cafe
has really helped to put poetry on the map - at least around East Grinstead,
and gives local poets a place to share their work and support others. I
enjoyed sharing my work and shared the guest spot with American poet Liz Bahs.
We have both some acting experience so that probably added to the
theatricality of the event. When you perform your poetry - especially if you
know it so you are not glued down to the page, you can feel whether the poem
works or not. You can give it to the audience and feel how deeply it is
received. The Poetry Cafe has a good listening ear.
Poetry L & T: In your poem "Blackstock Road", there is a dark mood and a particular sense of horror at the blood on the butcher's overalls. Was this from the point of view of a vegetarian, or simply the blood being the last straw that drove you away?
Janis:
It was everything together really - not really the blood - that is
more for poetic effect I think - it was his pyjamas under his overall and his
loneliness and Finsbury Park and being 19....I think also sound wise the word
Blackstock has a compacted down feel about it. And Victoria has something of
release. I was a vegetarian at that time. I didn't think about that.
Poetry L & T: I particulary like your poem "Gaelic and the Bagpipes". The central
character is very vividly portrayed. I'd love to know more of the story behind this poem and the man who inspired it.
Janis:
That might turn into a novel! The man is a great highland bagpiper
called Alan Macdonald. We sat in his kitchen (or the holiday home as it has
now become) and it was as I have written - 'so yea want tae hear the beast?'
and he played his bagpipes and closed his eyes. Later he spoke about the
clearances and the modern sort of clearances where 'there's not a Macdonald
left...' It's probably not very politically correct to say this but as a Scot
it is a bit challenging to find English people pitching up in thousands in the
highlands to stay, affording the good properties, and you sort of wonder
where are the Scots?
Poetry L & T: Another colourful character is revealed in your poem "Stranger's Eyes". I
can't help picturing the handsome actor from the TV series "The Buddha of
Suburbia" when I read it... was he handsome?
Janis:
...Um ...no. If he was it would have been quite different. It's more
the not being handsome, getting on in years and feeling needy, lonely, and
reaching out for love or at least company that inspired the poem.
Poetry L & T: Your poem "Made the Land of Heroes a Wilderness" has a wonderful lilting
rhythm and a poignant feel about it, with strong imagery of a rugged landscape and the careworn woman at the centre of the story. I would like to know which part of the Scottish countryside inspired it...
Janis:
A very particular part. It is called Smirissary and it is ner Glenuig
in the North West Highlands. Smirissary is a poem in itself and has over the
years inspired many works of art. You can't get there by car so access is by
foot or boat and that in itself seems to lend land mystique. It also catches
the sun setting in the west and looks out over to the isles of Eigg and Rhum.
And then, in addition to the dramatic and invigorating landscape, it has these
crumbling crofts and signs that once a community lived and thrived here. Some
of the crofts have been done up and are now holiday homes. The writer Margaret
Leigh, lived in Smirissary during the war and lived the crofters life. She
wrote the beautiful book 'Spade among the Rushes' there, which is about her
life in Smirissary.
Poetry L & T: Do you take pen and paper with you wherever you go, in case of inspiration?
Janis:
Mostly yes. Someone offered me a tiny laptop yesterday. The sort that
you carry around and bash out some poems wherever you might be. I said to him
it's OK, I like the movement of the wrist and he looked at me as though I had
just arrived from Venus - or Pluto - or the eighteenth century. But I really
do like the movement of the hand and the energy of shaping letters. And often
you can seed a poem on the back of an envelope. But it's interesting you say
'in case of inspiration'. And it's great when it comes upon you like a gift.
But I'm trying to school myself so that it's always close. I think it's like
anything - if you don't use it it grows weak and when you do, like swimming
every day, you simply get better.
Poetry L & T: Finally, Janis, what is your main ambition for the future?
Janis:
I'd like to have collections of poetry published and appreciated -
and also to perform my work. I'd like to continue to be inspired and I want to
be relevant and real and disciplined enough to just sit down and do it.
I have several poems coming out at the end of September in a collection
called 'Seated in the Soul' published by Forward Press, £6.95 (Email us if you'd like to buy a copy).
Poetry L & T: Thank you for the interview, Janis.
Janis:
Many thanks and the best of luck with your magazine.
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This month's interview features Janis Mackay, an accomplished poet, actress and voice trainer from Edinburgh.
Featured Poets include: Pam Murray aka rhymetimeblue, Deborah P. Kolodji, Anthony Hall and Sean Clair.
Resident Poets feature Robin Ouzman Hislop, Richard Vallance, Jan Sand and Sara L. Russell. See below Featured Poets for the link to this page.
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Featured Poets this month include Pam Murray aka rhymetimeblue, Deborah P. Kolodji, Anthony Hall and Sean Clair. Many thanks to all contributors. See below Featured Poets for our Resident Poets' page link.
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PAM H MURRAY
I am female and turned 50 years old in March 2001. I was a product of the 1960s and I have been writing poetry since then, although my writing has transformed many times over. Most of my poetry is rhyming. I am a prolific reader, reading any type of books, but enjoying science fiction/fantasy most and romance novels I have begun writing short stories and submitting them to The Writers Journal magazine. I'm waiting for feedback.
I love crafts of all sorts and sketch in pencil, design and hand draw individual Christmas cards with felt pens, starting right after Halloween and I work full time in a large telecommunications company. I have worked full time since high school in 1969.
DEBORAH P KOLODJI
Her cinquains have appeared in Eclectica, Scrivener's Pen, Wilmington Blues, St. Anthony Messenger Magazine, Autumn Pond, Short Stuff, Brevities, Hummingbird, and many other places. Seven cinquains and two dozen other of her poems will appear in The New Pleaides Anthology due out from Kedco Press this fall. She is a winner of the Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest with her first haiku collection, Seaside Moon by Saki Press, and one of the featured poets in The New Resonance 4: Emerging Voices in English Language Haiku from Red Moon Press.
ANTHONY HALL
I have been writing poems, short stories, essays, etc., since I was a young boy. Living and playing inside my head and imaginings was a comforting escape from my dysfunctional world.
It has only been in the past 10-15 years that I began to realize that I am a writer and that has been a revelation that has freed me from the bonds of the opinions of others. Once again I find solace and inspiration in my thoughts and have nearly finished my first book of poetry. 'The Confessions of a Male Stripper'.
The 2 main beliefs that are my driving force now are: "Mastery without, is first preceded by Mastery within" & "An achiever with great potential, who is neither driven or motivated to realize that potential, will never achieve anything potentially great" - Anthony Hall
If I Were A Waterfall
© Pam H. Murray aka rhymetimeblue, 2004
If I were a waterfall
I’d live in high, granite cliffs
And cascade into a forest
Of tall, vibrant evergreens.
I’d tickle the river at my feet
And shout to the sky
Misting the air with caresses
And, oh, this waterfall would fly.
If I were a waterfall
You’d hear me coming
Long before you saw me
Spill over the earth’s lip.
I’d be for selective viewing
Far from highways and by-ways
Friend to the grizzly
Feared by the spawning salmon.
I would be the true kiss
Of air and water.
The trees would pay homage
To my life giving force.
But, just for myself,
I’d tickle the river at my feet
And shout to the sky
Misting the air with caresses
And, oh, this waterfall would fly.
Do You Hear Me?
© Pam H. Murray aka rhymetimeblue, 2005
Do you hear me whisper
From the far side of the room?
I’m more than a shadow
Locked in this endless gloom.
I’m a heart that’s beating
And a soul that’s opened wide,
Waiting for another
Who will quickly slip inside.
Do you hear me breathing
In an abstract memory?
I tried so hard to call you
But no one was hearing me.
I am waiting, hoping,
That someone will return.
Do you hear me whisper?
It’s not your ears that burn.
Jazz Haiku - series of three
© Pam H. Murray aka rhymetimeblue
Flames leaping
From eyes after midnight –
Jazz notes
* * *
Speakeasy feelings
Jazz bars opened to the discerning –
New Orleans
* * *
Montreal shadows
Wooden floorboards
U-Zeb concert
Approaching September
© Deborah P Kolodji
Childhood
disappearing
before a mother's eyes--
a sand castle missing turrets,
high tide.
Link #44 of "May Dazed", a 212 stanza collaborative cinquain
sequence by the CinquainPoets Yahoogroup e-mail list.
Before the Alarm Clock Rings
© Deborah P Kolodji
Chirping
too cheerily,
a robin sings at dawn.
I slowly throw back curtains, see
blue eggs.
Link #49 of "May Dazed", details as for Link #44 above.
Piped Piper Nights
© Deborah P Kolodji
Again,
midnight sparkles
of meteor showers
lure me away from sleep. I stand
dreaming.
Published in Poetic Voices, June 2005
Link #17 of "May Dazed", details as for Link#44 above.
Breath by Breath
© Deborah P Kolodji
first breath--
bellowing out
a red-faced newborn cry
fingers and toes all counted up
perfect
blowing
bubbles with Mom
fantasies in the wind
simple smiles fast disappearing
childhood
giddy
telephone calls
prom dress waits to be worn
dreaming teenage thoughts of first love
breathless
living
nine-to-five days
soccer, scouts, PTA's
out-of-breath mad dashes through years
rat race
photos
frozen moments
parade on the dresser
grandchildren's faces gather 'round
last breath
*first published in the November 2002 issue of "The Writer's Hood"
Tequila Sunrise
© Anthony Hall 2005
Looking for my sense of humor
In a shot of Cuervo Gold
Desperately wishing I could somehow
Place my miserable life on hold
6 shots later,
I found myself in the men’s room.
The gray-blue tiles,
strewn with half used paper towels,
soaking up the alcoholic urine,
spilled carelessly by others
seeking a sense of themselves.
I figured that the sensation of a stomach
twisted in knots
and the aftertaste of vomit,
branded on my tongue,
would be soothing in their dependability.
I don’t even like Tequila
With four blurry-beige stalls to choose from;
my bladder demanding attention
and my resolve slightly firmer than my legs,
I find a porcelain haven and let go…
All the stress and negative energy of the day.
All the worries and tensions
released in a flood of relaxation.
What a relief!
A bit more sober and wiser,
I’m determined not to be defeated
by depression.
Nor look for comfort in the arms
of strong drink.
Realizing one’s power to shape the future,
instills confidence
and imparts a curiously warm feeling throughout.
That warm sensation does not depart,
but lingers as I step out
into a dawn of lavender and gold.
Searching for my keys,
I discover understanding in a pocket’s depths.
The warm glow
felt as the result of forgetting to unfasten your pants in the bathroom,
is identical to and easily mistaken for
the satisfaction of self-awareness.
Community Spirit
© Anthony Hall 2005
I’m not a community spirit
The soul of isolation has been my choice
I could never sing in a Choir
Because I don’t have a community voice
Sing to me the quiet and alone
Carry me on wings Exile
Celibacy is the grand feast I devour
“Table for one, please”
I once wished to be a community spirit
To fit right in with everyone else
Playing the game of ‘Follow the Followers’
I came close to losing myself
I understand with my cyclopean vision
Philosophically singular
a Unicorn
I’m an amoeba walking on a thread…
In the spotlight
Good-Bye
© Anthony Hall 2005
Our memories become God
able to re-create you in beautiful excellence
We have stopped asking useless questions
you would say that the answers could not bring you back
Better to remember
how much you are a part of us
even though you are no longer part of this world
So much better
to feel the love
and to hear the laughter
that echoes within our thoughts of you
Our memories become God
with the power to give you life
Oh how you made us live!
For an hour, a day, a year
Magnificent moments as lasting as diamonds
we wear them like rings
Priceless masterpieces
framed and hung in our heart’s gallery
Our memories become God
dwelling with you in that perfect place
high above the tears
and the sadness
and good-byes
SEAN CLAIR
I am a native of the United States; I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and have been writing for five years.
I was started by the lyrics of certain musicians, namely, Tupac Shakur, and other poets/artists. I have also been greatly influenced by the American poet Robert Frost, and many other greats. I only aspire to become published, and eventually create an anthology of my works, thus far, I have upwards of 900 written out poems and typed poems I am trying to put out eventually. My family has always been very supportive of my zeal for writing, by supporting me I have grown to truly love the art of writing, both poetically, and in prose form.
I sit agape – looking around I see the ocean, rifts of rock, and mossy trees all about me, I see the dreams of tomorrow resting within the neap, those tides who flow annually through gravities strain, they tease and trick the tides out of cycle again, I smell the fishery down the beach, and hear the gulls above it, seeking one fresh fish from mans’ keep, below me grains of sand warm from our benevolent sun that fleeting gold beauty lofted in sky, keeping this green Earth so grand, Above me clouds form, and night is soon to come, A daunting sign of what will soon be – These tides bring life – scores of life, female sea turtles come ashore, unknowing of my watchful eyes, they sow their eggs into the sand, much like I have sown my land, and grow they will, through time and nurture. All this plentiful within the neap, As I lay down to sleep, I hear the whispers of the neap, this gift from nature I have found, and memories, I will surely keep. Life © Sean Clair
A callous canvas hewn from nature, it’s decorum man’s life, coloration, different races, nuances of this grand place, the isle, a deity’s hand– that same hand, which created man, holding our picture suspended, for the entire infinite to see, Our art needs no gallery, nor price to watch our chaos, no neologian coinage applies we are simply us, his children, strewn through a single dimension, of infused colors created this diverse realm, which we reside. Jesus © Sean Clair
The gift; the curse; The taint of crucifixion; To scourge a human soul. Daunted by reality; Which fate deemed for a criminal. The five afflictions of the Christ. A parody for the religious; Who can personify this wretched life. One of wrist: run it through; To devour human just, One of ankles: held the weight; Of the centuries burdens born. One a crown: made from thorns; To mock him of his very rights. One of deviance: whips estranged; far from humans dare to bore. The last: a spear to deny him life; To diminish, to cleanse they say. For the spiritual of the cross. May you carry his burden; suffer his fate. Feel the demons, and visions of cur. Sake the once whole soul, now obscure. For this cause is righteous; Yet the pain is divine.
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