Sue Bracken
NationalPoetryMonth.ca April 16, 2023
Wasted Words by Sue Bracken is on NationalPoetryMonth.ca on April 16.
From Sue:
“The poem Wasted Words was written on the centenary of the first publication in 1922 of T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland.
Many years ago I was gifted with a book that was a facsimile and transcript of the original drafts of The Wasteland. There were so many words and ideas that had been edited out! Pages of bizarre and wonderful images were tossed aside. One phrase Supposing that they have the heads of birds/ Beaks and no words stayed with me and I was determined to use it as a prompt. I loved the adventure of having no idea where this would go.
It's such an amazing coincidence to have this poem published in April, for National Poetry Month! April will no longer be the “cruellest month”! “
Sue Bracken is a poet, partner, mother, sister, retired Physiotherapist and Ergonomist, amateur photographer, swimmer. Many of her poems and images deal with water, especially a lake in Haliburton Ontario. In a former life she was a fish. She’d write poems under water if she could.
Sue's work has appeared in GUEST [a journal of guest editors], Hart House Review, Dusie, Touch the Donkey, WEIMAG, The New Quarterly, Another Cancer Poem Anthology (Mansfield Press), and elsewhere.
Her first collection of poems When Centipedes Dream was published by Tightrope Books in 2018.
Please visit https://nationalpoetrymonth.ca/ to read poems daily in April. The work will remain online until February 28, 2024