Ordinary Moving - Softcover

Kemp, Penn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1774033518 ISBN 13: 9781774033517

Publisher: Silver Bow Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

Perceptions from early childhood for Penn Kemp were best expressed in poetry as the senses are so acute then and the imagery intense.  A child's perspective fascinate the poet as it is still original, unencumbered by expectation.  Penn's life began during World War Two and carried on throughout the staid Fifties into those (in)famous Sixties. The London Ontario artistic scene when Penn grew up was an exciting foment of new ideas. Her father, an abstract painter, was very involved in the arts scene so the arts were her milieu. Adjusting to social mores at school was something else. Her poems present that trajectory: articulating the momentous shifts in consciousness that all those decades offered.

Raising kids in the Seventies, then skipping on to her into her Seventies, while her grandchildren grow she stands back now to ponder the cycles, patterns of change: what remains and what goes. ~ Penn Kemp, Life Member, League of Canadian Poets

About this title

About the Author

Poet and playwright Penn Kemp has participated in Canadian cultural life for sixty years- writing, editing, and publishing poetry, fiction, and plays. She shares the richness of her experience through a unique use of word, sound, imagery and symbolism. Her work explores environmental and feminist concerns, though she is best known as a sound poet. Delighting in multimedia, Penn is active across the web.

Edition details

• Publisher: Silver Bow Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1774033518
• ISBN 13: 9781774033517
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72