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The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
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Here you'll find revellers, developers and dealers circling the city's glitzy heart, Lenin inspecting Swedish allotments, and people hanging on to housing as the city tries to squeeze them out in the search for ever more profit. Elastic Glue is a pamphlet rooted in place, looking critically at the intersections of who and what we share our spaces with, and what that means. This follow-up to Goose Fair Night examines the ways we own and are owned by land â how we both make and are made by the places we inhabit. Kathy Pimlott explores this through poetry which is sharp, lyrical, always political, and sometimes just exasperated.
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What I learnt behind bars
The Manvers Arms
I never saw the exotic dancerâs snake,
being deemed too green for the hurly-burly
of the public bar and consigned upstairs
to the lounge, to ferry steaks au poivre
and cherries jubilee from the echoing kitchen
where a solitary boy in whites dropped
plastic sachets into water at a rolling boil
and gave up trying before heâd even started.
To a woman, the lady diners despised me
in my pink satin hot pants with the butterfly
appliquĂ©. They were right. It wasnât a uniform,
nobody made me wear them but I had the legs.
The Flying Horse
I was filling in the rest of that last summer
when those Aussie lads weâd met
on the Piazzale Michelangelo
during the earth tremor
took us at our word,
hopped over to England and popped by.
It was several years until I came to see
that when the tidy men in the intimate bar
by the door had sighed I was lucky,
it hadnât been on account of my fabulous tan
or hair so straight it didnât need ironing
but because of those ragamuffin boys
who swept in and swept me up
in their loud glory, lighting every corner
with their shameless brio.
The Dover Castle
A solicitor called Christian owned the Dover Castle
and lived above with his largely incidental wife
who rose at six to make miniature shepherdâs pies.
He had another round the corner but, it was agreed,
the Castle was the classier. By noon it was full
of doctors and the BBC drinking vodka and tonic.
On hot days heâd turn off the pumps and offer
only continental bottled beers to quench the thirst
of consultants, commissioning editors and engineers
sweating in the mews. If we had cucumbers,
heâd make up a jug of Pimms. In the afternoons
we bottled up, counted pennies from the machines
and American Annie whose husband was on the rigs
would explain how heroin was good for colds
but cocaine was a safer everyday choice
and Mitti would rail against the gracelessness
of English men. Of an evening it was quiet,
just regulars: a psychiatrist from Harley Street,
who specialised in Catholic guilt, drank
until he liquefied, and the man in the stetson
practiced being inscrutable over Jack Daniels.
Tipster Laurie, fresh from the courses, in thrall
to hard-hearted Mitti, could be coaxed into sending
a taxi for ice-cream as the dullness wore on,
soaked in scotches drawn from six optics, all filled
from the big bargain bottle. When David Warner,
in his Morgan years, sat on the step, head in hands,
I offered him the solace of the poster for his Hamlet
which had graced my teenage wall and agreed
that neither of us should be here. A man who said
heâd designed the packaging for Winalot invited me
to late supper at the Hard Rock Café and I went.
It seemed starry but really it was just sticky carpet work.
The Fancy
Those parakeets, theyâd talk, especially the solitary males.
Let out to flit around the room, theyâd settle on pelmets.
Weâd bat them down with a copy of Womanâs Realm.
Forget a window and theyâd be off, leaving us to imagine them
harassed by duller local birds. No longer. In bullish flocks
they fly all along the Thames, right up to Hyde Park and beyond.
They escaped from the Twickenham set of The African Queen
or Ji...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Other Titles From The Emma Press
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- They count on you getting tired, giving up
- Seven Dials: The Rookery Redux
- Site of Special Scientific Interest
- Music & Movement
- When we were shortlifers in The Bury
- Socialist Activist Anna Lindhagen
- Ruby Wedding: what itâs like
- Charles Boffâs Comprehensive Guide
- Revelations
- Taxonomy
- Covent Gardenâs garden
- What I learnt behind bars
- The Fancy
- Cold Spell
- The Ballad of St Giles Central
- Going to the Algerian Coffee Store: 500g Esotico
- The Consultant Placemaker does Seven Dials
- Remedies against Enemies
- The ironmongerâs a vintage clothes shop now
- Atomic Strip
- A Visit to the Master of Space and Light
- Acknowledgements