{"id":1187,"date":"2022-10-09T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2022-10-07T13:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:30:03","slug":"poetry-society-then-now-video-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/09\/poetry-society-then-now-video-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Society Then &#038; Now video series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Poetry Competition closes on 31 October 2022. In the run-up to this year&#8217;s deadline, I was commissioned, along with a charm of other incredible poets, to record my poem <strong>&#8216;Namazu at the Physicist&#8217;s Funeral&#8217;<\/strong>, which was commended in the 2018 competition, written about the work of Motoji Ikeya, who sought a scientific explanation for the prescience of Japanese catfish in detecting oncoming earthquakes. Ikeya was also aware of <em>y\u014dkai<\/em> folklore attributing earthquakes to the giant underground catfish Namazu thumping his huge tail.<\/p><p>In the video, I also read &#8216;Benjamins&#8217;, a poem from my new collection <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenirving.com\/projects\/hotcockalorum\/\"><em>Hot Cockalorum<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, which references Frank Wedekind&#8217;s 1903 psychosexual novella <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mine-Haha,_or_On_the_Bodily_Education_of_Young_Girls\"><em>Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kirsten Irving - Then &amp;amp; Now\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/757529086?h=7a1b0ca0ac&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1150\" height=\"647\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/757529086\">Kirsten Irving &#8211; Then &amp; Now<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/poetrysociety\">The Poetry Society<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p><p>Please also enjoy this picture of Namazu in his fanciest robes, having a tug-o-war with some dude.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4_NamazuAndKashima_Tug-of-war_IllustrationChronicles_1500-1024x702.webp\" alt=\"A Japanese print featuring mant well-dressed Edo-era people watching a samurai in green robes battle a black catfish in blue robes. They each have one end of a loop of red ropes around their necks and are battling to pull it to their respectives sides.\" class=\"wp-image-1191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4_NamazuAndKashima_Tug-of-war_IllustrationChronicles_1500-1024x702.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4_NamazuAndKashima_Tug-of-war_IllustrationChronicles_1500-300x206.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4_NamazuAndKashima_Tug-of-war_IllustrationChronicles_1500-768x526.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4_NamazuAndKashima_Tug-of-war_IllustrationChronicles_1500.webp 1494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><p>Not a video fan? You can read the text of &#8216;Namazu at the Physicist&#8217;s Funeral&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/poetrysociety.org.uk\/poems\/namazu-at-the-physicists-funeral\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video reading of &#8216;Namazu at the Physicist&#8217;s Funeral&#8217; and &#8216;Benjamins&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,100,93],"tags":[151,95,13,4,32,152,30],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-readings","category-poetry","category-poetry-projects","tag-commissions","tag-folklore","tag-kink","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-society","tag-psychosexual","tag-voiceover","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}