The latest issue of Painted, spoken is actually a book, Reverdy Road by
Simon Smith. Here's one poem from it -
Which is Which
Buying perfumes and lipstick's a full-time occupation
Or falling in love again regular as clockwork is
My instrument of pleasure, my hair's breadth of preference
My struggle with the nearest light source stretched over canvas
Paper or cloth so our paths cross once more
A tall order for high energy on half-power
One last chance there and here and some distance in between
The drops from a dropper drops in the Atlantic Ocean
All talk and all to fall for perhaps or never who's to say
Aren't you the one lucky with what pops in perks up
And parks so much so we'd wondered where you'd gone
For what we sometime were, we are no more
Grown into someone else's name the usual stories
Don't fit into something someone else's naming
Morning emerges to light above the quarter-light
A quarter of a century away no place to be or go
Like all Painted, spoken numbers this is issued free, except that you have
to send an A5 stamped addressed envelope (please, no IRCs; sorry, everywhere
else). A second class stamp covers UK postage. This is no. 4 of Painted,
spoken: all the previous issues are out of print. Address: 8 Richmond Rd,
Staines, Mddx, TW18 2AB.
Another book, by a certain Richard Price, is also out: Frosted, Melted. It's
published by Diehard (91-93 Main St, Callander, Scotland, FK17 8BQ), 67pp,
hbk, £8.50.
Richard (Price)
Coming soon to The British Library Galleries :
Trading Places : the East India Company and Asia (from 24th May)
Magic Pencil : Children's Book Illustration Today (from 1st November)
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