{"id":13554,"date":"2020-09-06T12:47:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T11:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/the-people-died\/"},"modified":"2020-09-06T12:47:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T11:47:47","slug":"the-people-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/the-people-died\/","title":{"rendered":"The People Died"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Karl Parkinson<\/strong> presents The People Died, published in his recent collection Sacred Symphony<\/a>\u00a0(Culture Matters)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The poem has been made into a video by poet and videographer Dave Lordan, and performed by myself. It’s a danse macabre, an avant-garde videopoem for the 21st century that looks back on the poetic tradition, and to our present situation.<\/p>\n

I received an Arts Council Covid-19 response award, to make spoken word video poetry for people during the pandemic, and this is one of the pieces I made. It was sparked off from listening to Puerto Rican Obituary<\/a> by Pedro Pietri, and with the phrase the people died<\/em> running through my head, I went on a poetic run, adding more lines and extending the poem with relevant unpublished pieces I had, resulting in a ten page poem. Please share.<\/p>\n

If you would like to read the text of this and other recent poems, you can buy\u00a0Sacred Symphony<\/em> here<\/a>. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n