Nathaniel Kohp• Show poetry

"I'm going to be a Bird of Paradise this spring"

Stephen Tennant.

My name is Nathaniel Köhp.

Köhp. Köhp. Köhp. UMLAUTS.

Moving on. 

I'm English and grew up in England and Austria, I speak German. I play Violin. I still use a typewriter. Stuff.

Info:

~I have a weird fascination with silent movies. I have loads on DVD, how shamelessly geeky.

~I love old photographs. Especially the old Cecil Beaton stuff, Stephen Tennant, the Mitfords etc.

~Music makes me happy.

~I tried to learn Cornish but realized no one speaks it.

~I tried to learn Welsh and haven't the patience.

~I am learning Russian and can hold conversation in it.

~I play Piano.

~Give me cabaret dammit!

~I am surprisingly Bohemian for someone so overtly middle-class.

~I am very distantly related to the actor Spencer Tracy who famously acted alongside and also dated Katharine Hepburn.

~My sister cannot read. Odd that!

~There is no God. Maybe.

Poetry: 

I think of myself as a confessional poet, but I'm not always. My poetry is usually very obscure, with a huge clash of metaphor and confessional honesty. 

I love all the poets out there who just write about themselves. That they don't fear telling people how they feel and what has happened, what will happen etc. It's a beautiful relationship between reader and poet when that happens.

So obviously I love people like Plath and Sexton. I also like Dylan Thomas, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and more.

PS adding more poems soon.