It Comes With a Bit of Song
Published in 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-84471-543-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is a book about voices; voices of people and places and how we live our lives. It is also about silences and things we do not say. The voices of poverty and those caught in war, the living and the dead, the voices of real and invented people, dream voices and stolen narratives. There are poems about extraordinary moments when nuns ice skate and Monty Python meets his mother, when Bud is silenced by poverty and its relentless grip. J.G. Ballard enters Heaven, lions and tigers and pigs prowl across the pages, Grand Central Station takes you on another journey; there are shocks and surprises. The reader can travel to places that no longer exist and places that never existed, listen to maverick minds, wake up with a boy who has been asleep for 400 years, tumble between the real and the surreal. These poems are original, musical, important and every so often they bite back.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84471-543-5 (9781844715435)
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David Grubb writes novels, short stories and poems. His most recent poetry collection, Box, was published by Like This Press in 2012. Previous poetry collections have been published by Salt, Shearsman, and Stride. He was a winner in the 2012/13 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition with a sequence, `Ways of Looking'.
Content
Part One
Voice
Notes on a Work in Progress
Monty Python Meets his Mother
Bud Fields and his World
It Comes with a Bit of a Song
Be Very Afraid
Books In - Books Out
Why We Do
In Case the Distance do not Meet
Poem Beginning with a line by Jenny Joseph
The Reverend Robert Walker Takes his Skates Off
The Quiet Light
Padstow
The Glovemaker's Son
Lost Histories and the Uses of Silence
Here Go the Words
Door
Travels to Nowhere
Last Days of John Clare
Short Stories
Letter to Alice Sebold
Nuns Skating
At Smollensky's
We Set Out
Why Monks Should not Hit Each Other
Dirty Dancing
How Often Can We Say the Gypsies Come to Malvern?
Blue Noise
When the God is not the Trees
Pig Days
Part Two
After Terrible Things
I Remember Not Meeting this Man
Sometimes
Quietly Startling Moments
A Man Goes Out to Steal a Horse
And Men Do Rise
Chasing Stars
Doctor Clock and the Lord's Prayer
Father's Day
Letter to John Clare
Letter to Ronald Blythe
And Slew a Lion in a Pit on a Sunny Day
Cento Angeli
Tiger in Daylight
The Boy Who had Been Asleep for Four Hundred Years
JG Ballard Entering Heaven
Donkey Flaying on the Quantocks
The New Yorker
The Man Who Swallowed Watches
I Wanted to Make a Circle
Mrs Wiseman is not in Today
Radio
Grand Central Station
Pig Days in Bedfordshire
Voice
Notes on a Work in Progress
Monty Python Meets his Mother
Bud Fields and his World
It Comes with a Bit of a Song
Be Very Afraid
Books In - Books Out
Why We Do
In Case the Distance do not Meet
Poem Beginning with a line by Jenny Joseph
The Reverend Robert Walker Takes his Skates Off
The Quiet Light
Padstow
The Glovemaker's Son
Lost Histories and the Uses of Silence
Here Go the Words
Door
Travels to Nowhere
Last Days of John Clare
Short Stories
Letter to Alice Sebold
Nuns Skating
At Smollensky's
We Set Out
Why Monks Should not Hit Each Other
Dirty Dancing
How Often Can We Say the Gypsies Come to Malvern?
Blue Noise
When the God is not the Trees
Pig Days
Part Two
After Terrible Things
I Remember Not Meeting this Man
Sometimes
Quietly Startling Moments
A Man Goes Out to Steal a Horse
And Men Do Rise
Chasing Stars
Doctor Clock and the Lord's Prayer
Father's Day
Letter to John Clare
Letter to Ronald Blythe
And Slew a Lion in a Pit on a Sunny Day
Cento Angeli
Tiger in Daylight
The Boy Who had Been Asleep for Four Hundred Years
JG Ballard Entering Heaven
Donkey Flaying on the Quantocks
The New Yorker
The Man Who Swallowed Watches
I Wanted to Make a Circle
Mrs Wiseman is not in Today
Radio
Grand Central Station
Pig Days in Bedfordshire