Jenny also performs as one of The V’s with Catherine Crosswell, Sarah James and Ruth Stacey.
The V’s became from a slip of the tongue between five female poets when discussing the villanelle in late 2011, this led to the birth of their first form – a villanelle hybrid with some miaou thrown in – and is filthy, fun, feminist (just a bit) and all in the light-hearted poetic celebration of womanhood!
The V’s have performed at The Boar’s Head, Kidderminster in 2012, and 2013 performed with the Decadent Divas at Ledbury Poetry Festival to a sold-out Burgage Hall. The Decadent Divas are Maggie Doyle, Charlie Jordan, Lorna Meehan and Laura Yates.
Photos: Richard Austen
Cutting the Rose:
Full summer and a blood-rose waits
to share her scent, her taste
while he stands with a silver blade.
Full summer and a blood-rose waits
across the lawn, her life unmade.
He cuts her stem, lays her to waste.
Full summer and a blood-rose waits
to share her scent, her taste.
Jenny Hope
2012