The Nine Realms
9 months, 23 poets and writers, 22 Artists, 3 composers, 1 Viking boat: a magical reworking of Norse Mythology for contemporary audiences
Poems and Writing inspired by the Norse realm of Helheim (The Realm through which men must pass to reach Nifelheim)
Featuring:
Eleanor Perry, James Knight and Tom Murphy
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whip shrug figurations
by Eleanor Perry
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we dig grisly at the slagheap ridge | where stark
proteins broke in the ash | there are high-voltage
moths and tumours in the masonry | brash ga-ga-
ganglia lolling in twists and graphs | and that tweed
squirm in the kitchen, darting and novelizing, all
sleaze and gravel shudder | we need to wake up
next to the aluminium industry | pull hungry and
hip reckless | our hardboard tetrahedral gods –
bright and shining with their clerical safeguards |
this is rock-n-surf | there are no other meat splinters
in the fissuring hour of the liver | and I have put the
whole galaxy into spilth and multicode | these back-
lands full of weird mimiviruses frothing in the gaps |
high-balling in the green of telemarketing | where I
quietly slang viridians
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Hel
by James Knight
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Switch off
Silvered faces
Inside the mirror
Do come in
Make yourself at home
WTF! I can’t see a thing
Only my face
I look like a fucking weirdo
What’s going on with my eyes?
Switch on
Switch off
Fold yourself up, put yourself in my hand
Wait
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Silvered faces
At home
My eyes
Put yourself in my hand
Switch on
Switch off
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Switch
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Part 6
Helheim
by Tom Murphy
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the creepy motherfucker never unchancy
reeled and hollered
as I removed the breath from his throat
snow crunched and swirled
I crunched and swirled
he grew cooler
there was a boast
an insult or two
breaths he should have kept to himself
blood was spilled of course
coursing unbound
feezing on the ground
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Find out more about Eleanor, James and Tom here:
Eleanor Perry
James Knight
https://twitter.com/badbadpoet
Tom Murphy
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As always, thank you for your interest.
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