Thanks, Doug and Max. Yes, I'll look into him further. Andrew
2009/12/29 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> Quoting Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> I have just
> > reviewed, in various places, some fairly avant work, & a terrific
> > traditional lyric volume, John Glenday's Grain, in which he achieves
> > some pieces tht sound ike theyve just been there forever.
> >
> Ah, thanks Doug, I've just googled him and think I may acquire his Grain,
> which
> I see is published by Picador...
>
> Max
>
> ...copy&pasting one poem I trust not too illegally:
>
> Imagine You are Driving
>
> Imagine you are driving
> nowhere, with no one beside you;
> with the empty road unravelling and ravelling
> in sympathy as the wheel turns in your hands.
>
> On either side the wheatfields go shimmering
> past in an absence of birdsong, and the sky
> decants the shadows of the weather from itself.
> So you drive on, hopeful of a time
>
> when the ocean will rise up before you like dusk
> and you will make landfall at last -
> some ancient, long-forgotten mooring,
> which both of you, of course, will recognise;
>
> though as I said before, there is no one beside you
> and neither of you has anywhere to go.
>
> John Glenday
>
> from Grain (Picador, 2009)
>
> Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan, London, UK
> international.macmillan.com
> Copyright © John Glenday 2009
>
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Andrew
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