Thanks for sending us these poems, Jood! They both respond to the exercise, and the picture of M87, so well, and in such starkly different ways. 'Black Hole M87' is fantastic for your use of text and its space on the page - there are so many little moments which are so clever and meaningful, such as the line break of 'shoreline', and the spreading of words when you talk of 'dense/ and deep/ and powerful'. The haiku, I think achieves a similar effect, but the concise nature of it frames it entirely differently. Together, I think they work really well as a pair - showing both the huge expanse of the unknown and the tiny amount we know about it.
As always, if you would like to share your pieces created from the session's activities, do email them to me at nellie.cole@sky.com.
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