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I was given a Kindle e-reader as a Christmas present in 2011. It got me thinking about the mediational means associated with reading. Then it got me thinking about the role books actually play as physical objects in describing our identities. The books on our shelves define us to a certain extent; the books we are seen reading in public suggests to others what kind of person we might be. The Book Lover was the poem that emerged, alonsgside other things. Around the same time, a copy of ‘Sing me the Creation’ by Paul Matthews was lying on a coffee table at a friend’s house. The cover features the 1810 painting ‘Adam naming the beasts’ by William Blake. I wrote First Monday as soon as I got home. Would that have happened if there had only been a Kindle on the coffee table?

Two poems: The First Monday & The Book Lover