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Diver Overview – PoemSebastian Schloessingk

Sebastian Schloessingk
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Sebastian Schloessingk has appeared in Verse, Oxford Poetry, Formafluens, Dedalus and Quadrant and wrote the libretto for Magma, an opera by Lamberto Coccioli which premiered in 1998. He was editor for Qualm, a biannual contemporary poetry anthology, from 2003 to 2017. His two poetry collections, Cry of the No-No and Stil Cagey have been published by Gometra.

Born in Britain of German and Irish parents, Schloessingk lives in the Welsh Marches/Y Mers.

 

Critical acclaim for Schloessingk's work:

 ‘Schloessingk’s poems all have an instantly recognizable and original voice. There’s an appealing subtlety and variety of tone to them, and a syntax that mirrors the twists and turns of a very particular consciousness. They range widely over the material and the material itself is wide-ranging.’

Jamie McKendrick

‘Poems full of terrific things.’

 Don Paterson

 

The Great Barrier Reef diver/cameraman

‘cried in my mask’, to see the bleaching.

Mankind is beginning to take creaky 

baby steps towards being able

to live forever. Just when there’s no more

 

forever to live in. There is a shock

that sidles from the phrase ‘humans were rare,’

as applied to time in the distant past

and the threaded bush. The future is not 

distant, in which human features are shifting

 

from centuries of subtle smiles formulated

to a set snort of cussèdness, rictus

licked into by flames either edge. Like greedy

Emperors giving our descendants

the thumbs down. Or dry generals bending

 

only as far as to cede scorched Earth, 

and scrutinize from the border. Children have

already only a walk-on part under 

the massive toppling fulminating 

dark Climate backdrop. 

                                           The human race was

too selfish to save itself, no-one will

much incise. Maybe naybe long.

 

 

Sebastian Schloessingk has appeared in Verse, Oxford Poetry, Formafluens, Dedalus and Quadrant and wrote the libretto for Magma, an opera by Lamberto Coccioli which premiered in 1998. He was editor for Qualm, a biannual contemporary poetry anthology, from 2003 to 2017. His two poetry collections, Cry of the No-No and Stil Cagey have been published by Gometra.

Born in Britain of German and Irish parents, Schloessingk lives in the Welsh Marches/Y Mers.