Our poem this week is 'Vegetable Special at the Gate Hangs High' by Tina Sederholm! 

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They spelt it Le Sagne

on the pub specials board.

That’s L,E, space, Sagne.

I shouldn’t laugh,

after all, people in Britain

pronounce it that way.

But I can’t help myself,

I keep saying Le Sagne,

Laying the stress

on different syllables,

pompous arse that I am

after a couple glasses of red,

and a Salena Godden gig,

which is permission enough

to say anything.

And it doesn’t get boring

to repeat Le Sagne, Le Sagne,

Le Le Le Sagne!

These tiny errors happen so easily.

Imagine in the Bible,

if T’shuvah had been better translated.

Instead of ‘repent’,

the scribe had found a word

closer to the original Aramaic ’return’.

Then we would not need to repent our sins,

only return from them.

Like reversing out of a cul-de-sac

when the sat nav gets confused.

Maybe it was a bad day.

Maybe the scribe’s bowels ached

after a confrontation

with his brother,

and carrying

certain judgments

on how some people should behave,

felt his brother could do more

to earn forgiveness.

Thought, Sod it.

Repent will do.

Maybe the scribe at the chalkboard in the pub

was having a similar moment.

Remembered being ridiculed in French class

as they dithered between Le or La

and having never studied Italian

thought Well… It sounds like a Le.

I ordered Le Sagne anyway.

The point is; it was delicious.

Tomatoes from the pub garden,

homemade Bechamel,

a sprig of parsley cut not ten minutes before.

What I would have missed

if I’d let a misplaced letter

cause me to dismiss this meal.

Perhaps it is a universal truth,

whether considering lasagne, or a bible,

one should seek a little deeper

and always check out the source.

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This week's poem comes from our upcoming 2020 poet Afshan D'souza-Lodhi who's debut re:desire will be released 25th June. 

Poem text:

Are we?

we are the generation of women

who's fathers were around but

who's mothers ran houses raised children fed armies cleaned up your messes and your messes and your messes and never seemed to get into any messes herself.

we are the generation that holds

each other in silence, across

the internet and in every single cliche

we are talked about but never allowed to live in.

we are the generation of radical

honesty, the kind that doesn't let a friend

leave the house with their skirt tucked

into their knickers, but the kind

that lies with kindness and discretion.

we are the resistance, the ones

that grew up on twitter

and protested regimes across borders.

we use memes to politicise and get quoted

by acamedics theorising about our lives

we are the ones that build houses

using youtube, we fix lamps and boilers and that leak underneath the tap.

we google and facebook and ask

the neighbourhood group

if anyone has a spare pot of paint to

do up the garden and on-up the annoying neighbour.

we are the children

of those that inherited books as gifts.

we pride ourselves in packed

bookcases of books we've never read.

we use our time wisely, to write poetry, to

sing loudly in the kitchen while making the buns

our mothers used to bake for us kids

we buy flour and eggs and forget to buy

yeast but facetime with home will save us and the buns.

we are-

and we will be-

its just a matter of how.

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'Borders' by Leanne Moden, a poem from the upcoming collection Get Over Yourself (July, 2020)

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We are joined by Maria Ferguson for this episode of the BE Podcast, after recently releasing her debut collection Alright, Girl?, we talk about imposter syndrome, Maria’s future plans for her writing and finding ways to keep motivated in the current time. Mentions of pandas.

Maria also reads a poem from the new collection.

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This episode we talk to author of Cosmocartography, Ciarán Hodgers. We discuss the unlikely debut, Liverpool's poetry scene and the ultimate question: do you put your easter egg in the fridge or leave it out?

Ciarán also reads 'Abscission' from his book.

https://liverpoollongreads.co.uk/the-problem-with-scouse-exceptionalism/

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This episode we catch up with Laurie Eaves, author of the heartwarming debut 'Biceps'. We talk about working with mentors, putting together a concept collection and what we as readers can do to help newly published writers. 

Buy a copy of 'Biceps' from Laurie's web store: https://laurieeaves.bigcartel.com/

Thanks for listening!

Edited and produced by Bridget Hart

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This episode lands on Mother's  Day (uk) so here is a poem by co-editor Bridget Hart, plus some exciting even updates and an recorded extract from Carmina Masoliver and her debut collection Circles (https://burningeye.bigcartel.com/product/circles-by-carmina-masoliver).

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Thanks for tuning in.

Welcome back to the Burning Eye Podcast! 

Here is a short episode for you, featuring a poem from Totally Cultured, the second poetry collection from renowned UK performance poet Dan Simpson.

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Pete 'the temp' Bearder talks about his new book #NumberedBoxes (BE Nov. 2016), festivals, Berlin and spoken word education.

To find out more about Pete's work and the podcasts mentioned in this episode visit: www.petethetemp.co.uk/podcasts/

You can also get Pete's book and others from our web-store: burningeye.bigcartel.com

Music: Wolf by Josh Armistead via Free Music Archive

Self proclaimed 'Crone Poet' Crysse Morrison talks about her new book 'Crumbs from a Spinning World', the seemingly sleepy town of Frome and what inspires her to write.

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