And so it begins.....

Next spring I will be launching my first exhibition of art infused poetry in Cornwall. This blog is to advertise and update events and above all keep me on track by recording the highs and lows of this enterprize in my posts.

Official Dates of Exhibitions

'The Old Press Gallery' (St Austell)
PREVIEW EVENING - Friday 22nd March 2013 7pm - 9pm

EXHIBITION STARTS - Saturday 23rd-28th March 2013

'Cornish Studies Library' (Redruth)
EXHIBITION STARTS - Tuesday 2nd-6th April 2013



Monday 2 February 2015


Back in June 2013 I eluded to a poem based on the painting DISCORD [1943] by Lowry. This is it....Hello again, it's nice to be back....



Old Weird North (after Lowry)
Either strangeness - full of sticks
or fellows with oily buttery skin
outlined like an Egyptian eye
encased in ruddy brick
It only makes his mouth twitch -
this North
 
Where men present there rigid backs -
tombstone stance
A few wives pause
between line    peg   and sheet
what was a fleeting chance
a pigeon soon puts stop to that
 
Isolated and obsolete - together
in two up two down
a grimy look to the broods
a frown from groggy clouds
catching the serpents
smoking their swirly chains
towards the sky
 
Lines of angled buildings
planted    out     tubas
puffing like a dowsed brass band
and the man with a heavy hand
smiting the land
the  dark        dark        land
 
His downward strokes 
pulls them feet first and  
all the throngs’ troop up the hill
leaning - as if in a
sharp        strong        wind
 
A mothers silence over the surface
Father      beyond family
past box      beyond frame
has lost for a moment his place
till recollects the Northern tone
 
sing the children face to face 
“brace them walls” for winter -
daub it white     so    white
when cold is there to ring
the rosy grey -
grey like the dog’s        bloodless        bone
and baby’s        lifeless        skin