A piece of poetry for a change, rather than standard monologue. This was such a refreshing idea.
Sarah Magillivray, during the time of the first lockdown, when our government allowed us to go for a walk for one hour each day within a stone's throw of home, took her mobile phone and filmed the empty parks she came to, editing her footage, filmed in black and white, to accompany her recording of Rohan Candappa's poem.
This fact brings a new and unintentional layer to the poem, which is already quite multi-layered. The poem is an exploration of "park". What a park is and what it means to different people. The place of a park in society, and our relationship with a park and the people who use it. The poem also explores the attitudes of anthropomorphised trees and animals that inhabit the park. There is some lovely imagery conjured up within this poem, but perhaps also it is a little pompous in the poem's language at times making it a little like the Victorian poetry forced upon us at school: inaccessible.
Intelligently interpreted by Magillivray, and something completely different from all the other monologues in this series.
Reviewer - Chris Benchley
on - 15/8/20
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