The Snow Globe
By Jenny Pagdin
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Threaded through this book are illuminating and courageous poems that settle and unsettle in equal measure. They cluster moth-like around spiritual and mythical figures, unravelling and remaking themselves with needlework and yarn, threaded along shorelines and under starry night skies. Jenny Pagdin's skilful and attentive use of a variety of forms reflects multiple and jarring realities – with poems dancing their own chaotic, fragmented and strange glinting beauty towards resolution.
Jenny Pagdin
Jenny Pagdin’s pamphlet 'Caldbeck' was published by Eyewear in 2017, shortlisted for the Mslexia pamphlet competition and listed by the Poetry Book Society. Jenny lives in Norwich with her family, where she works in the voluntary sector. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a BA in English from Oxford University. Her work is featured or forthcoming in New Welsh Review, Smoke, Magma, Ambit, Wild Court, The Stand, Finished Creatures, Interpreter’s House, Ink, Sweat & Tears and an Emma Press anthology. www.jennypagdin.co.uk
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The Snow Globe - Jenny Pagdin
Definition of love
Old English, related to leave and lief
Verbal noun: something known by its actions
(as the wind is); noun: nothing (in a contest);
the press of breath against a diver’s chest
(symptoms include insomnia, digestive tension);
the invisible movement of lips on
lips forgetting to breathe. Verb trans: to be possessed
beyond all reason: not by one as he really exists
but he as if remade by your devotion.
Verb intrans: to be one with the birds in flight
and one with the deer that skit across the forest floor;
to touch skin along warm skin and make no break
unless he turns in sleep (cf. bulbs at night
that gleam in the darkened greenhouse, warm and sure;
nubbed roots which intertwine in earth). Antonym: heartache.
Family planning (i)
Pregnancy test
my voice
telling your Daddy
high as a zeppelin
__________________
__________________
your faint shadow
setting sail at
the tiny porthole
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our three lives
turned in a kaleidoscope
shaken and shaken
until they fall
Night crossing (i)
Labour
And when she took away the gas & air I didn’t
know how I’d get across to the next one,
heavy, pressed bare against the rails, my hand
still grasping for the mask. I never cried
until she stitched me up – it’s like a jigsaw.
You beached upon my chest – latching.
‘Boy of Jenny Pagdin’
Navel clamped like a sandwich bag
forehead wax-red
wild arms stir the air. Branches.
Newborn
A paper jewellery box lined with kapok – bolstering a seed and a light blue eggshell. Then your name, that birthright that flew to my chest like hail, bringing the male beauty of winter. We used to whisper it through the walls. You rooted around for my third gift before it was offered, the rich hind-milk let down. We nestled in.