Chris Horton and Declan Ryan have teamed up to become some kind of super- human poetry duo to co- host tomorrow's Days of Roses which is at Oliver's in Greenwich, where the Hold readings usually are. They've got incredible poets to read, Luke Heeley, Todd Swift, Jon Stone and James Brookes, with music from Jahcub. It's going to be lovely!
Here's a poem from Luke Heeley, nicked from thepoem.co.uk
Here's a poem from Luke Heeley, nicked from thepoem.co.uk
Last Page of the Journal
Fleeting birds drink rainwater
from the barbecue in the yard.
The beach ball and paddling pool
lie depleted on the lawn.
The attic is icy, it groans
with the weight of your resolutions.
You've drunk too much tea,
nibbled a loaf to its book-end,
felt nostalgia for the infinite.
Button up. Pull yourself together.
The theatre curtains whispered to a close
as you gossiped to a shadow
in the back-row seats. Now it's time
to sit in the lamplight and write
that business letter; time
to drown your pen in the inkpot
then turn in for the earliest of nights.