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- Herausgeber: The Emma Press
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Serie: The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
- Sprache: Englisch
Here you'll find revellers, developers and dealers circling the city's glitzy heart, Lenin inspecting Swedish allotments, and people hanging on to housing as the city tries to squeeze them out in the search for ever more profit. Elastic Glue is a pamphlet rooted in place, looking critically at the intersections of who and what we share our spaces with, and what that means. This follow-up to Goose Fair Night examines the ways we own and are owned by land – how we both make and are made by the places we inhabit. Kathy Pimlott explores this through poetry which is sharp, lyrical, always political, and sometimes just exasperated.
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THEEMMAPRESS
First published in the UK in 2019 by the Emma Press Ltd
Poems copyright © Kathy Pimlott 2019
All rights reserved.
The right of Kathy Pimlott to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
ISBN 978-1-912915-07-1
A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.
Printed and bound in the UK by Impact Print & Design, Hereford.
The Emma Press
theemmapress.com
Birmingham, UK
CONTENTS
They count on you getting tired, giving up
Seven Dials: The Rookery Redux
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Music & Movement
When we were shortlifers in The Bury
Socialist Activist Anna Lindhagen shows Lenin the Barnangen Allotments, Malmӧ, spring 1917
Ruby Wedding: what it’s like
Charles Boff’s Comprehensive Guide
Revelations
Taxonomy
Covent Garden’s garden
What I learnt behind bars
The Fancy
Cold Spell
The Ballad of St Giles Central
Going to the Algerian Coffee Store: 500g Esotico
The Consultant Placemaker does Seven Dials
Remedies against Enemies
The ironmonger’s a vintage clothes shop now
Atomic Strip
A Visit to the Master of Space and Light
Acknowledgements
About the poet
They count on you getting tired, giving up
No-one lives here, you’d think, in the city’s glitzy heart
except the agile young wanting to shimmy and shine
before taking a van out to somewhere more... private.
Yet here we are, in infill blocks we made them build
all those years ago, knowing your mum, your kids
since before they had their own, so close we hear
each other’s sneezes, dying. Upstairs, temporary men
keep Spanish hours that clatter on their wooden floor,
