Harry Godwin, The Daily Filth, Openned 25th March, 2009

I think these two poems could be usefully classified under the heading of a poetics of social space. Or more accurately, the existence of these poems on The Daily Filth and the fact that Godwin's poem now fluxes between the Openned website, the reading series (now documented on website) and Sophie Robinson's project The Daily Filth, and the articulation of these connections on Openned (in this present post) and how this articulation corresponds to the semantic content of Harry's poem, is what I mean by naming the work part of a poetics of social space. 

Two Openned documentation poems by Harry J Godwin


“A tree just grew…” or Remembering Openned

A tree just grew
Out of my sorry
Jim’s
penis

A tree just grew
out of Jim’s
penis
and a bird
visited

Then some other
stuff
happened and I
think the bird left

But Jim still had
a tree
growing out of his
penis
a whole tree

Out of his penis

Two:
Remembering Openned 2 - hJgodwin

My stool
fell down
a hole
My stool
fell down
a hole
my stool
fell down
a h le
and Johan
made a face

To see the poems in their original context, plus a poem regarding the recent Crossing The Line reading, go to The Daily Filth a filthy website set up by the poet Sophie Robinson.