A big thank you to Allegro Poetry Magazine for publishing my poem in their March 2026 issue. The magazine displays the poetry in a list and I'm sure you'll enjoy reading the various poems sitting above mine, but if you want to go straight to my work, you need to either do a search using my name Rosalind, or scroll down about three-quarters of the way through the list.
The poem is called A Chat with Marguerite Patten. It was originally called A Chat with Florence Greenberg, a Jewish cookery book writer from the 1950s/60s, but I wasn't sure people would know who she was, so I tweaked it just a bit before submitting it.
The magazine can be viewed at the following link: Allegro Poetry Magazine
The poem was inspired by an online poetry workshop that I attended several years ago. We were asked to find something that meant a lot to us and then write down a conversation that we might have with that object. What I love about those kinds of workshops is that my mind always seems to produce words that I didn't know were there.
Lovely poem! I still have my mother's Florence Greenberg (with all the high cholesterol and sugar loaded recipes) for sentimental reasons.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Linda. It's interesting how eating habits have changed over the years. I don't even remember cholesterol being mentioned back then.
DeleteWell done Ros - poetry is not my thing ... but I congratulate anyone who can write it. I thhink we must have exercised more back then ... ie walked much further etc - no loafing around with or without pussycats! cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteI certainly was out and about more back in the day than I am now but that's because I was younger and fitter I suppose. Youngsters today go to the gym. We never did that to the same extent so I'm guessing there's more exercising and less loafing now than in the past... but I could be wrong x
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