Allographic at CB2

Allographic is a poetry and spoken word event that takes place once a month in Cambridge. For several years The Fountain in Regent Street was its regular venue, but on Sunday, 22nd February 2015 Allographic held its first event at CB2 Bistro in Norfolk Street.

The following photographs are a celebration of that event and aim to purvey a flavour of the night, as well as provide at least one photograph of every performer who took part, except for the photographer herself, who failed to capture her own performance. The odd photograph or two of one of her books and the words from one of the poems she read that night will have to suffice as indicators of her presence.

Cats and Other Mythical Creatures

In sleep you adopt the position of a Chinese dragon,

Or cat leaping from high wall without a safety net,

A twist to your tail and your body

As the dragon leaps and dances with the sun.

Who knows whom you are dancing with

In the chase, catch, kill of your dreams. 

Little mice, I hope,                                             

Not little humans.

J.S. Watts

©J.S.Watts

Cats and Other Mythical Creatures  was first published in the poetry collection Cats and Other Myths by J.S.Watts (Lapwing Publications, 2011) and has also appeared in Danse Macabre and possibly Punkin House Digest (but that’s a little unclear).