Christy Ku met up with the lovely Heads of the new Dead Poets Society (coming this September) to discuss poetry slams, traditional academia and pancakes with bacon.
Anna Romanska: President
Iona Bepey: Social Secretary
Abi Setchfield: General Secretary
Tell me about yourselves – who you are, what you like, who you’d like to see take the iron throne…
Anna: Well, we’re all studying English at the uni here. I live in Bahrain, but I’m from Poland, and I love all things literature, poetry, and fandom (like these two). And I have recently decided I want there to be no Iron Throne, so as to keep everyone happy. (But am secretly rooting for Sansa).
Iona: I’m sadly obsessed with Keats and wartime fiction, as well as appalling American reality TV. And Tyrion clearly has the edge.
Abi: I’ve been doing performance poetry since Yr 7 when I started speech and drama lesson., I love Percy Bysshe, Simon Armitage, Joelle Taylor, and bacon with maple syrup and pancakes. (And I don’t really care who gets the iron throne because the White Walkers are KINDA providing a sticky situation right now).
Pancakes and bacon with maple syrup? I am yet to try this culinary arrangement.
Abi: You want to make sure the bacon’s really crispy, and American pancakes work best. And thick maple syrup.
Anna: We all like cooking, we have arranged various evenings where we just eat and talk about Supernatural.
So how do you guys know each other?
Anna: Iona knew Abi and myself separately. I met Iona at a birthday, whilst we were both extremely drunk and bonding over Supernatural.
And how did Iona meet Abi?
Iona: Oh lord. This is really not going to reflect well on me…
Abi: It’s such a good story.
Iona: You get to tell the story.
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