Waiting to Tango
Like much of my work, Waiting to Tango views the world through the prism of history, its poems calling forth lives of artists and music-makers,
along with scientists from Robert Hooke, enthralled by the body armour of a flea seen through a microscope, to Marie Curie observing her luminous 'little ghosts'.
We tour the art treasures of the White House with resident expert Jackie Kennedy; a bereft Stradivari sculpts an instrument but hears only the sighs of timbers echoing through his house; physicist Lise Meitner flees Hitler's Germany for an address in Holland she 'might never find'.
A Templar Poetry Straid Award collection, Waiting to Tango was launched in 2016 at Keats House in London.
Certain of its poems feature on the website, including 'Dancing for Monsieur Degas', 'Meyndert Hobbema Measures the Density of Rhenish' and 'Jacqueline Kennedy's Guided Tour of the White House'. 'Twenty Seconds' is the current Poem Alone.
The Limitations of Artificial Intelligence is a grouping of dramatic lyrics that won The New Writer magazine's Poetry Collection Prize. Several of those poems are included in the book, which was the subject of a wide-ranging interview on BBC Radio Essex.
Copies of Waiting to Tango can be bought through the Templar Poetry website and on Amazon, using the links below:
Templar Poetry:
http://templarpoetry.com/collections/new-collections-pamphlets/products/waiting-to-tango
Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_8?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=victor+tapner&sprefix=victor+t%2Caps%2C134
Like much of my work, Waiting to Tango views the world through the prism of history, its poems calling forth lives of artists and music-makers,
along with scientists from Robert Hooke, enthralled by the body armour of a flea seen through a microscope, to Marie Curie observing her luminous 'little ghosts'.
We tour the art treasures of the White House with resident expert Jackie Kennedy; a bereft Stradivari sculpts an instrument but hears only the sighs of timbers echoing through his house; physicist Lise Meitner flees Hitler's Germany for an address in Holland she 'might never find'.
A Templar Poetry Straid Award collection, Waiting to Tango was launched in 2016 at Keats House in London.
Certain of its poems feature on the website, including 'Dancing for Monsieur Degas', 'Meyndert Hobbema Measures the Density of Rhenish' and 'Jacqueline Kennedy's Guided Tour of the White House'. 'Twenty Seconds' is the current Poem Alone.
The Limitations of Artificial Intelligence is a grouping of dramatic lyrics that won The New Writer magazine's Poetry Collection Prize. Several of those poems are included in the book, which was the subject of a wide-ranging interview on BBC Radio Essex.
Copies of Waiting to Tango can be bought through the Templar Poetry website and on Amazon, using the links below:
Templar Poetry:
http://templarpoetry.com/collections/new-collections-pamphlets/products/waiting-to-tango
Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_8?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=victor+tapner&sprefix=victor+t%2Caps%2C134