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The Other Side of Sleep
Narrative Poems
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What started as a complaint about the '40-line rule' in much of the poetry world has turned into an anthology that not only breaks that rule, but stomps all over it. Featuring 25 poems which break the rules - these are long, narrative, but by no means traditional poems, by contemporary voices.Themes both great and small are explored in narrative poems that pack a punch. Human interactions from conversation, storytelling, lending and borrowing, theft, prayer, memory, shopping and a long walk, right through to sexuality, time travel, truce negotiations, disappearance, natural disaster, violence and death are all explored, many of them rooted in landscape and place. These lie alongside equally rooted mythological and historical tales drawn from Greece, Turkey, Africa, Scandinavia and Britain.What draws all these themes together is the strength of the storytelling. Emotions as diverse as frustration, disappointment, embarrassment, hope, nostalgia, anger, and fear are channelled through spectacular poetry in many different forms into truly satisfying work.
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PoésieROBINSON
Brian Johnstone
PROSPECTS FOR ROBINSON
I
There is a bridge some miles from the city
known to all,
Robinson amongst them.
Rush hour
and Robinson has parked his convertible
in the shadow of one of the towers.
He is observed
walking with uncharacteristic haste
towards the western footway.
It is getting late.
The light is dimming fast.
II
Robinson passes several strollers.
His agitation is remarked upon.
He is heard to mutter
“Sunday, at five?”
seemingly addressing no-one.
This time determination does not desert him.
Robinson hits the water
at 5.01.
Its depths swallow him,
bubbles passing his ears like music,
presto.
III
On the footway
a Mrs Morse is walking her dog.
She is distracted by thoughts of her lover.
Was that a splash she heard?
“Ah well – those boys....”
The dog, a French poodle,
is pulling at the leash.
Of Robinson, there is
no sign.
IV
Aware of the pressure in his ears,
Robinson is surprised to find himself
conscious.
He remembers breaking the surface
and the acrid taste of the water.
He remembers the lights of the city
distant
and mocking.
He remembers
nothing else.
V
The boat on which he finds himself,
being fastidious,
is not one he would have chosen.
The destination,
Mexico,
some days away.
Robinson spends long hours
staring at the water,
the wake
seeming to have a particular fascination.
He proves oblivious to the weather.
The weather,
equally oblivious, is unchanging.
VI
It is night
and Robinson is alone on deck.
What little light there is is dim and shaded.
The sea is black,
glistening with an oily sheen.
By turns
it attracts and repels.
Somehow
he cannot recover
his previous determination.
Somehow
he does not think he wishes to.
ROBINSON IN MEXICO
I
Robinson had never believed in clichés:
A new life? A new identity?
What did he care?
But here
the anonymity he craved.
Robinson, today,
is no longer Robinson.
No questions.
No need of them. American. Alone.
That is all.
Few words
and a back street bar.
II
Seen in a drug store,
Robinson is observed eyeing the Luminol.
Seen in a small arms warehouse,
Robinson is known to have purchased a .32 Beretta.
He polishes it nightly.
He is noticed on occasion
walking to the end of the breakwater,
hesitating, walking back.
Whiskey his friend, indecision preys on him.
Time begins to crack.
Inside,
a suddenly garrulous Robinson
makes his mistake.
No-one is surprised at his disappearance.
It had been expected
daily.
III
Robinso...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- CONTENTS
- THE OTHER SIDE OF SLEEP
- COMPASS
- TROY: SEVEN VOICES
- GRAFFITI
- LÏR
- HAMNAVOE
- TIME TRAVEL
- ROBINSON
- VOICES AFTER A TSUNAMI
- REVENANT
- RHYTHMS
- BEWCASTLE POINT-TO-POINT
- THE BLACK LIGHT ENGINEER
- NAMING: AD 2006
- A VISITATION AT THE ABBEY OF BARKING
- GRASS WAS TALLER
- I HAVE NO FEET
- GRITHSPELL
- ORION
- ERIS SPEAKS
- IN RETAIL (XXIII)
- FAITH IN A TIME OF DOUBLE-DIP RECESSIONS
- ON THE HUNT WITH MR ACTAEON
- I WENT TO THE MARKET AND I BOUGHT…
- THE BROKEN THREAD
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