Poetry
Kay Syrad's poetry has been published a wide range of anthologies and journals including Poetry Review, Long Poem Magazine and Brand and she has received prizes and commendations in a number of competitions. Kay's first full collection, Double Edge, will be published by Pighog Press in April 2012.
Bunker
Above the horizon, blue, indigo:
principle of dark. Below,
a concrete hut with a slot-mouth
lists in a river of stones.
At the slot’s lip, a white stain
(paint or chalk) draws the eye to
lichen. The drift and spread
of stones around the hut suggests
bluff, a reckless casting, while
a felted black in the foreground
cries out for end, the gone of it, cries
out to the black-hatted priest beyond.
'Bunker' is taken from
Objects of Colour: Baltic Coast
Gina Glover and Kay Syrad
Objects of Colour: Baltic Coast
Gina Glover and Kay Syrad
Foxhall Publishing,
February 2009
47pp ISBN 978-0-9560956-0-2
Paperback £15.00 (inc P&P)
Available from Amazon or order from Kay via the Contacts & Links page
Objects of Colour, a collection of photographs and poems, is the result of a two-year collaboration between Kay and the award-winning photographer, Gina Glover. Using a pinhole camera, Gina photographed abandoned beaches and military bases in Lithuania, Poland, Latvia and Estonia. Kay responded by writing poems that contemplate these surreal, vividly coloured images. As the artist Chris Drury writes in his introductory essay in Objects of Colour, '...it is this combination of thoughtless concentration on the images and thoughtful concentration which ignites the mind of the poet, draws up the interior into the light.' (www.ginaglover.com)