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Podcast ofPoet Kevin Morris’s Interview on the World Poetry Reading Series on 8 May 2025

On Thursday 8 May, I appeared on the World Poetry Reading Series. During the show, I read a number of my poems and discussed how my time in hospital whilst recovering from an operation to remove a brain abscess inspired me to compose poetry.

 

For a link to the podcast please visit https://www.mixcloud.com/VictorSchwartzman/world-poetry-cafe-may-8-2025-kevin-morris/

. My segment starts approximately 22 minutes into the podcast.

The Paperback Edition of “Passing through: some thoughts on life and death” is Available to Purchase in the Amazon Kindle Store

Following on from yesterday’s post, in which I mentioned that my poetry collection, “Passing through: some thoughts on life and death” is now available to purchase in the Amazon Kindle store https://kmorrispoet.com/2025/05/17/passing-through-some-thoughts-on-life-and-death-by-k-morris-is-available-to-download-in-the-amazon-kindle-store/. I am pleased to let you know that the paperback edition of “Passing through” is now also available. To purchase the paperback edition please visit the below li...

“Passing Through: some thoughts on life and death”, by K Morris is available to download in the Amazon Kindle store

I am delighted to announce that my new poetry collection, “Passing Through: some thoughts on life and death” is now available to purchase in the Kindle store.

Book Description:

In the last week of January 2025, poet K Morris suffered a seizure whilst at home. This was rapidly followed by several other seizures, , and the discovery that he was suffering from a brain abscess, which required an urgent operation.

In this book the poet describes his thoughts and feelings as he grapples with his own ...

Dogs and Ponds

My dog of whom I am extremely fond

Has a habit of jumping in the pond.

Then he gets a certain smell

Which I know all too well,

And of which I am not that fond!

 

(A couple of days ago I took my guide dog Apollo for a walk in Crystal Palace park with my friend and his Rhodesian Ridgeback. Being a Labrador Retriever,  Apollo decided that it would be tremendous fun to go swimming in a pond, twice!)

 

The Bishop’s Ceiling

When a naked young lady from Ealing

Went and swung from the bishop’s ceiling,

A spinster called Hocking

Found it most shocking!

And the bishop gazed at the ceiling!

There is a Kind of Butterfly

There is a kind of butterfly

Who alights at night

And brings pleasure for a time

To lovers of rhyme.

And these butterflies

They go with day,

Although they may

Be caught in rhyme

And live on

When they are gone.

Seashells

In the library I would look at books

And seashells, so near to shelves

Drowning in books.

At the time this seemed incongruous to me.

But now I see no incongruity

For the sea

Will, one day, sweep all this culture away

Leaving only shells.

 

 

Haughty Kath

When a haughty young lady named Kath

Demanded that I run her a bath,

And I said, “do it yourself!”

She said, “but I’m an elf!”. ,

I said, “go magic your own bath!”

The Maelstrom of Time

As I sit thinking about poetry

I hear the birds calling to me.

I spend far too much time

Pondering on rhyme,

While the sun rises and sets

On my regrets,

So soon lost in the great maelstrom

Of whirling time.

New Poetry Videos by Poet Kevin Morris

Since returning to London on 22 April, I have recorded many of my poems on TikTok, https://www.tiktok.com/@kevinmorrispoet. You don’t have to have a TikTok account in order to view my videos.

 

If you visit my TikTok and like what you hear, do please consider following me on TikTok.