Really enjoyed the Poetery London submissions. Country Girl’s pastings were an enjoyable memoir. I grew up in the Hampshire countryside, crucially including my teen years; I wondered where the event had happened?
I can see the need to tinker with Lay By. Not that it does not stand alone as published but because it’s easy to see how you can love that guy. How more tender and or despicable can you make him?
I really enjoyed Patrick Brandon’s stuff in there too…Do you know anything about him?
Glad you liked them. Country Girl is an evocation of times on the Wiltshire/Hampshire border, during my mid twenties (after art school). It’ll be interesting to revisit The Lay-by (I’ll give it time to die a little, to cool off), and, yes, I think it’ll be taking the guy deeper into himself and the polarity of his actions – a construct of seeming contradictions, like us all.
I thought it was a vigorous issue of Poetry London to be include in, a fine transatlantic mash-up. ‘Fraid I don’t know any more about Patrick Brandon – found a lot was exciting about it, esp. Dolphin (stunning Gary Sinise line – bang-on).
Markus
Really enjoyed the Poetery London submissions. Country Girl’s pastings were an enjoyable memoir. I grew up in the Hampshire countryside, crucially including my teen years; I wondered where the event had happened?
I can see the need to tinker with Lay By. Not that it does not stand alone as published but because it’s easy to see how you can love that guy. How more tender and or despicable can you make him?
I really enjoyed Patrick Brandon’s stuff in there too…Do you know anything about him?
Cheers
Jon
Glad you liked them. Country Girl is an evocation of times on the Wiltshire/Hampshire border, during my mid twenties (after art school). It’ll be interesting to revisit The Lay-by (I’ll give it time to die a little, to cool off), and, yes, I think it’ll be taking the guy deeper into himself and the polarity of his actions – a construct of seeming contradictions, like us all.
I thought it was a vigorous issue of Poetry London to be include in, a fine transatlantic mash-up. ‘Fraid I don’t know any more about Patrick Brandon – found a lot was exciting about it, esp. Dolphin (stunning Gary Sinise line – bang-on).
Ta,
Markus