#PoetryMonth Surge

• Author: Jay Bernard (1988)
  
• Title: Surge (31 short poems)
  
• Published: 2019
• List of Challenges 2021
• Monthly plan
• #PoetryMonth (April 2021)
• #ReadingDiversity

Introduction:

1. For those readers of Jay Bernard’s debut Surge who are
2. not familiar with the historical event to which it responds,
3. there is a carefully detailed author’s foreword.
4. On 18 January 1981, 13 black teenagers were killed in a
5. house fire that engulfed a birthday party at in south-east London.
6. Although the New Cross Fire is still in living memory,
7. Jay Bernard is seeking to introduce it to a new generation
8. …to make history live and remind readers these are both statistics and people.

Conclusion:

1. I haven’t even opened the book but I feel this will be an emotional journey.
2. This time I’m reading the book while  listening to the audio book.
3. I will just let Bernard’s words wash over me.
4. Each poem has a different voice…a gathering…