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Originally Posted by Sarah-Jane Crowson
Your children have AMAZING names
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Oh dear, I hope you won't be too disappointed to find out that those are pseudonyms! I have Strong Opinions about children and internet privacy, so I don't use their real names and I don't show their faces. They can have a real online presence when they're old enough to decide what it will be.
I'll definitely post a link to the Fractures album when it's released. It's funny; I don't really have any strong opinions about fracking vs other methods -- but I had a poem that fit the general brief when Frank called for submissions. (My poem is about the heartbreak of being casually overlooked by the beloved.)
Frank and I have collaborated before; earlier this year he set my poem "
Helianthus" to music for SSAA choir. (It's reproduced on the last page if you click through to the score.) We were both looking to make some sort of artistic response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and that's what came out.
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full of life details that make it real
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This is, in fact, one of those poems drawn directly from my life -- if the details feel real, it's precisely because they are!