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Politics - Three Oxford Sermons
( written in 2001 on eve of first Afghanistan war and 9/11)
Our Hatred
Is an object, a ball of lead shot
I carry in my stooping frame.
It has grown, layer upon layer,
like a stone in the gut
each time I see a smug, ruddy faced
son or daughter of the shires
walk blindfold through these doors.
They do not stop, for they carry no guilt.
It is washed free of their hands each day
by the sure-footed minions who keep
the ticking clock ticking, the fountain fed
The trout swimming in the moat,… Continue
Our Hatred
Is an object, a ball of lead shot
I carry in my stooping frame.
It has grown, layer upon layer,
like a stone in the gut
each time I see a smug, ruddy faced
son or daughter of the shires
walk blindfold through these doors.
They do not stop, for they carry no guilt.
It is washed free of their hands each day
by the sure-footed minions who keep
the ticking clock ticking, the fountain fed
The trout swimming in the moat,… Continue
Posted on July 12, 2009 at 9:30am —
The Weaver's Lament
The Weaver’s Lament
( for Angus MacPhee)
His aging hands clumsy with the straws
that jerk into the shape of head and arms
of his latest creation.
If I were you I’d be using old wire not grass,
a handful of gravel, some chalk
moulding it against some concrete wall.
Instead of dancing away like this between sand
and arum, a twirling of lines
like the nets of a trawler gathering in
all the sweet silver off the plates.
No I am not you and never will be
but instead cling to a windless pla… Continue
( for Angus MacPhee)
His aging hands clumsy with the straws
that jerk into the shape of head and arms
of his latest creation.
If I were you I’d be using old wire not grass,
a handful of gravel, some chalk
moulding it against some concrete wall.
Instead of dancing away like this between sand
and arum, a twirling of lines
like the nets of a trawler gathering in
all the sweet silver off the plates.
No I am not you and never will be
but instead cling to a windless pla… Continue
Posted on July 12, 2009 at 9:30am —
'The Drifting Village'
The Drifting Village
Deep in the sleet
Forward slanted, rimed with ice
the cottage, wrecked and the tree
catching a fire on a winter’s eve.
Stars and a dance of the dead
across hills and exotic trees
brought in from ships at Tilbury
and carted to the master’s door.
The crackle of horsehair chairs
and splintered bed timbers collapsing
All that remained of Bab
and what Bab held dear.
Like a frail cross the tree smouldered
then burnt to the ground
reminding the assembled multitude
of… Continue
Posted on August 12, 2008 at 2:00pm —
“…a concern for language and for how it shapes memory and identity.”
ANNA CROWE, LINES REVIEW, EDINBURGH.
” Belcher cannot be accused of nostalgia or pastoral myth-making but is as vituperative in tone as Larkin”
RAYMOND FRIEL, SOUTHFIELDS.
..the poems… individually and cumulatively preserve aspects of identity and genealogy rooted in a particular soil and way of life…..an underlying humaneness.”
STEWART CONN (Scottish Poet Laureate, Playwright )
“..your poem is so beautiful..I love the tenderness of the carrying of the horse which was rescued.”
(The Ice Horses)
TESS GALLAGHER (Poet)
Born Oxford, England, 1959
Oxford Polytechnic Foundation Art & Design 1978-1979
Hornsey College of Art : B.A. Fine Art 1979-1981
Nottingham University Teacher Training P.G.C.C.E. 2003-4
Derby University Postgrad. Cert. in Art Practice 2007-8
Started writing poetry in 1990 and immediately published in small literary magazines including Southfields, Slowdancer and Oxford Poetry etc.
Moved to Edinburgh 1994 and joined Shore Poets in Edinburgh and poem used as title of group anthology 'The Ice Horses' in 1996. Anthology edited by Stewart Conn and included Ian Chrichton Smith and other leading Scottish poets.
Became interested in alt-country music in late eighties and still performs as alter-ego 'Trailer Star'.
Moved to Oxford in 1996 and started online music webzine Flyinshoes.
Moved to Nottingham U.K. 2002
Tribute to 'Trailer Star' CD 'Moon Over The Downs' released 2003 in aid of Cancer Research.
Trained as teacher at Nottingham University (P.G.C.C.E) 2004
Taught F.E. level art & design and now a multimedia lecturer at Trent University Nottingham, freelance web designer and writer and artist
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POETRY READINGS
2008 STAPLE EAST MIDLANDS ISSUE LAUNCH
Lowdham Festival
2001 BACKROOM POETS, OXFORD :
With W.N.Herbert & Joe Butler.
2000 FIRE MAGAZINE READING Highgate London:
various writers associated with Fire.
2000 LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVAL :
Three Oxford Poets with Giles Goodland & Jeremy Hilton.
1999 SOUTHFIELDS MAGAZINE READING :
Magic Cafe, Oxford with Richard Price & Giles Goodland.
1996 SHORE POETS :
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh with John Purser & Gillian Ferguson.
1993 DIDCOT FESTIVAL :
Didcot Library with fellow Didcot poets Jonathan Davidson & Greg Sweetnam.
1992 SLOWDANCER 28 :
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham with Kirsty Gunn and Mark Robinson.
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- Lived in Nottingham since 2001
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- Poet and songwriter
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Polyverse Festival
Time: July 24, 2009 at 10am to July 26, 2009 at 11pm
Location: Loughborough University
Street: Epinal Way
City/Town: Loughborough
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Event Type: Poetry, Festival
Organized By: Radcliff Gregory
Location: Loughborough University
Street: Epinal Way
City/Town: Loughborough
Website or Map: http://www.facebook.com/gro...
Event Type: Poetry, Festival
Organized By: Radcliff Gregory
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Thanks for the invitation to join polyverse poets...i have joined and please feel free to comment on the poem "The Buisnessman's mantra As Distilled from television" also please feel free to pass that poem to anybody else who might enjoy it.
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Saikat(urban gypsy p)oet