Olivia Pinkney read a poem called \u2018Body\u2019, which interrogated the objectification of the female body, and women\u2019s relations to their bodies \u2013 the repeated refrain \u2018my body is not my own\u2019 morphing by the end of the poem into \u2018I am not my body\u2019.<\/p>\n Katie Szyszko got the prose readings off to an excellent start, reading a tautly-written prose piece which explored childhood memory, family relations and diaspora experience in both funny and moving ways \u2013 reflecting upon her changing relation to her Grandparents\u2019 orthodox faith.<\/p>\n Joe Hill read one of the lightest \u2018Dirges\u2019 I\u2019ve yet to hear: a response to his mother telling him that he would have to have children or face being alone, his poem, which started out by seeming to be about his inability to relate to children used a perfectly pitched repetition to achieve a humorous twist at the end of the poem.<\/p>\n Tom Parsons\u00a0read a poem-critique of Richard Linklater’s 2014 film Boyhood, examining the premises of identification and universality that he sees as underpinning the film of ‘this young man with memories you could own’:<\/p>\n I wanted to see him mainline heroin<\/p>\n Or kill a friend<\/p>\n Or just alienate himself from others<\/p>\n In a way that wasn\u2019t cool or introspective<\/p>\n Neelam Saredia read two new poems \u2013\u00a0Neelam is a very accomplished performance poet whose clever observational poems are delivered with energy and panache \u00a0– she’s always an enjoyable poet to watch.<\/p>\n Chris Scott, a second year PhD student, read two scenes from his novel Intermission<\/em> \u2013 the first a dialogue, and the second a visually descriptive piece which used short and, most particularly, sentences composed of three adjectives, to great effect.<\/p>\n I read some new Sappho translations out with Molly Bloom<\/a> in January\u00a0& which will be performed more fully at the Centre for Gender, Sexuality & Writings LGBT week<\/a> from the 16-20th<\/sup> February.<\/p>\n![\"polinaopenmic\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforcreativewriting\/files\/2015\/01\/polinaopenmic.jpg\")
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