Released

“Newly found Ella Fitzgerald recording to be released”
The Guardian 18 January 2025

Lost – languished
her spin muffled
Ella rediscovered
verve
a wondrous
moment of truth
– released
to watch girls’
light-filled
connection

Andrew Wilson, 2025



Over at dVerse Poets Pub, Punam – paeansunplugged in Poetics, urges us to celebrate reading broadsheet Newspapers by making an erasure or cutout poem …

8 thoughts on “Released

  • January 23, 2025 at 10:58 am
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    What a lovely erasure poem, Andrew! You prove newspapers do carry interesting information and do have their uses.

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    • January 23, 2025 at 2:29 pm
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      Thank you Punam – I had to get away from the doom and gloom of my last two posts…

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  • January 23, 2025 at 7:03 pm
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    I love both the news and the way you erased it down without loosing any meaning.

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    • January 24, 2025 at 12:59 pm
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      Thanks Björn – I think it both kept the original gist of the article but read separately it has a standalone meaning which is a little different…

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    • January 24, 2025 at 12:58 pm
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      Thanks Yvette – erasure is always a bit of an adventure…

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  • January 25, 2025 at 8:08 pm
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    I love your leap into erasure poetry, Andrew, on these newly discovered recordings! Ella Fitzgerald is one of my favorite singers, by the way. I recently learned that Marilyn Monroe was responsible for her being allowed to sing in a Whites-only nightclub in Beverly Hills (or L.A.) and breaking down that barrier to her stardom.

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    • January 26, 2025 at 7:37 am
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      Thanks Dora – I heard that story about Marilyn too – there was so much more depth to her than the media and studios allowed – so tragic…

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