Georgina Titmus

Biography

Sixty-something Georgina left home at 16, lived in London, Sydney, Toronto, Cardiff; worked in hotels, a care home, as an assistant warden for the YHA. In her late twenties she took 'A' Levels before graduating in Philosophy from Durham University. She's been published in: The Journal, South, Orbis, The Frogmore Papers, Runcible Spoon, The Moth, Into the Void, Fenland Poetry Journal, Shot Glass Journal, Briefly Write, Dreich, Reach, The Pomegranate, Full House Literary & others. She's twice been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. In the 1990s she co-wrote the sitcom Satellite City with Boyd Clack (under her previous name of Jane Clack); broadcast on BBC Wales. She lives in Cornwall, sees for her sight-impaired husband and writes on a 1980s' electronic typewriter made in the GDR.

Samples

1984 we hear the sound of breaking glass three floors up in our rented room / friday nights saturdays. screams. the landlord channels rachman: faulty electric heater / rigged coin meter / warhol soup on a one-ring hotplate / mildewed paranoia. we fear the sound of breaking lives— three floors up in our rented slum. screams / diamond dog dreams. sundays are quiet. First published - Fenland Poetry Journal A Seagull Like characters in a Chekhov play, we slight each other, fan ourselves, complain. A seagull, feathered adolescent grey, deflowers soft tarmac; entrails pressed into memory. Oh, this heat. First published - Orbis Last bus A streetlamp yellow, a Hopper cadmium; fluorescing the raincoat evening. Painted wooden figures board a child’s push along toy; patient brushstroke faces—going home. First published - Reach The Hadal Zone Unfathomably alien, darkly devoid; bioluminescences bloom. Maritime miasma, spawning desolation; abyssal gametes fuse. Primordial nomads, enraptured by depth; freakshow exquisite in gloom. Blind mouths feed. First published - Hedgehog Poetry Press

All poems are copyright of the originating author. Permission must be obtained before using or performing others' poems.