The following advertisement appears in Wulfstan’s Literary Tumbles, along with a commentary by Kiersty Boon on the TS Eliot prize and the funding of the poetry world.
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Well, you assured us you weren’t slacking, and now we have the proof! This project sounds great fun, as always.
*Applause!* I love this, Kiersty, and I feel as if, on first reading, I’m only just beginning to discover what’s in there. Wonderful. I really like “We all live in the wrong fairytales”, that would seem to ring painfully, sweetly true. I love “I will build you a cowshed by candlelight”. To me, it says a lot about the fallacies and truths we find ourselves living by, in our relations with one another, either consciously or otherwise. “Shall I impress you with ignorance or cheat you with barely palatable fact?” seems to ring equally true about universal human experience, when we find we must negotiate between fantasy – that is more pleasant, heightens moments and makes life prettier, easier, more liveable – and the authenticity of fact, which is of course a necessity too. And there’s the suggestion that fact doesn’t quite ‘cut it’, that it short-changes. Anyway, that’s all my personal impression of course, and I have a lot more of this brilliantly complex poem to process for myself. “both butter side up and down” is wonderful. There is much more to say of course, of this poem that makes a Luxury Cow Shower sound like the best gift a person could give. Superb. And a great preview of the new book, a great, generously substantial trailer for the Main Feature, and I’m very excited indeed!
Oh this is so wonderful Kiersty. Your creative energy and motivation never ceases to amaze and inspire me. xx