Event
8th October
3 Essex Poets, Big Day of Poetry at Cramphorn Theatre.

Bio
Ken Champion is an internationally published poet whose work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Rialto, Smiths Knoll, Magma, African American Review, Iodine Poetry Journal and others too numerous to list.

He has two pamphlets, African Time (2002) and Cameo Poly (2004) published by Tall Lighthouse and a full collection, But Black & White Is Better (2008, reprinted 2011). He has also had fiction published in literary journals in the UK and USA.

Ken reads in London and elsewhere and hosts More Poetry at The Coffee Shop, London E1.

Ken lives in Goodmayes, Essex.

Poem


Anthropomorthingy

I once read a poem written by a wall
and how the squeezed mortar felt
And one from a pond telling how
it was when a child drowned in it,
His mother churning my depths
with his name. And verses by
a hyena. I'm not laughing. A hyena.
I trot, I lope, I slaver.

I'd like to write one about being
a tortoise and what it's like
to have hares gallop past
and the triumph of just beating one
that started three days earlier.

Or perhaps some stanzas
from the Woolwich Ferry
as it diesels across grey water
and dreams of gliding into Rio.

I'm not going to though.
It's silly.
And anyway
I can't.
I'm a sideboard.