“4 A bicycle saddle lies like a horse’s skull by the side of the A2.... 7 Unsaying #1 ‘She’s washing her feet of it’ .... 17 The scrap metal merchant’s lorry joins his funeral cortege, its flat bed bearing heaps of flowers.... 20 Like Hector’s lost shield, A single silver hubcap Peers from the wasteland With its one eye....” Extracts from ‘Street Gleaning’, a poem in Unauthorised Person by Philip Kane. This collection contains a staggeringly brilliant long narrative poem about a staggeringly drunk merchant seamen who finally un-homes his home town and a silky melding of flotsam and grandeur in Kanes wonderful ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at the River’. culturedllama.co.uk/books/unauthorised-person
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:03:21 +0000
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