"The Devil's Bank" appears in "Pacts and Conjurations: New and Selected
Poems 1982-2004" (Arrowhead Press), due as he says between Christmas and
New Year, and available by post from the publishers (Collett and Boulter,
wot you wot of) or from the poet, or from bookshops, or in the case of
overseas customers from Independent Northern Publishers via their website.
Full details in due course.
And next time you quote from it, Hamilton, you can damn well acknowledge us
properly!
Actually, Sex and the Artist wouldn't have been a bad subtitle for the book
.....
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:19 AM
Subject: Re: Sex and the Artist (time-delayed snap)
> From: "Peter Cudmore" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 5:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Sex and the Artist
>
>> What did you do, Robin. What did you do?
>
> Years later, I wrote a para-take around this (no Scotsman will willingly
> let an idea rust unused).
>
> It'll be in my next book (out between Christmas and New Year, ideal for a
> belated present, cheap at half the price. EnditFreePublicity).
>
> The Devil's Bank
>
> They give you a special sort of cheque there, that
> You can only pass in certain shops. There on the
> Second line: Desolation, Seduction, Murder.
>
> There's a certain magic about some poems,
> Like the first time I wrote a name above the sum:
> Murder - I tucked it away in my wallet, but never
> Passed it - enough to know I could.
>
> And a whole sheaf of pay-the-bearer-on-demand
> Seductions. Write in any name.
> Again, unused.
>
> Then one day I found at the back of the book -
> Unusual colour, but the old familiar
> Guarantee there - this one had written on it: Love.
>
> That one I passed - it bounced.
>
>
> ROBIN HAMILTON
>
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