The Friday poem: “Saucepan”, by Catherine Vidler
New verse by Catherine Vidler, inspired by dear old Saucepan, a character from the Enid Blyton series The Faraway Tree.
Saucepan
To any of us
he is still Old Saucepan.
Dear everybody,
he is still.
He could stay
because he says
yesterday.
Can he put things right?
Will you come?
Polly, put the kettle on.
Catherine Vidler
Catherine Vidler’s first chapbook, Cloud Theory, was published by Puncher & Wattmann in 2007. In 2011 Puncher & Wattmann also published her collection Furious Triangle. Some recent publications include stamp sonnets: 28 poems created from material contained in hartmut abendschein’s ‘stamp stories’ project (SOd press, 2019), 78 composite lost sonnets (Hesterglock Prote(s)xt, 2018), Lost Sonnets (Timglaset, 2018), collected composite lost sonnets (SOd press, 2018), and lost sonnets (Spacecraft Press, 2018). In 2019 her publications included Keyboards, 14 Poems for Tom Jenks (The Blasted Tree), Repetitive Poems (Simulacrum Press), and Lost Sonnets, 3rd iteration (edition taberna kritika).
