Here some of the seminal books that influenced me over the years.. This quickly got out of hand and a more rational attempt will be made later….Margaret Atwood’s Survival and Jonathan Bate’s book missing..
Dark Weather
THAMES VALLEY TEXAS
I just read some of this volume at the Open Book reading is Thames Valley Texas (updates at link above or direct here https://shaunbelcher.com/writing/?cat=106) This is a kind of auto-biography of myself and my hometown of Didcot where I lived for a good part of 30 years. The title is a reference to the love…
Desert Dust : Dark Weather
Desert Dust started out as a poem about Spain as part of a sequence originally published in Fire Magazine read here: http://poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record6911-2.html?id=9510 4. BRIDGE OF STONE Five years ago we slid across this bridge at dawnafter a long hot drive from Barcelona.I kept waking up on the back seat to see factoriesflaring orange against the…
The New Country: Dark Weather
Original poem written in 1985 from ‘The New Country’
Drak weather – A Suite for The End of Nature
Experimenting with poetry and sound…. 26 poems related to a damaged ecology 1981-2022 set to some ambient electronic soundscapes. neither fish nor fowl…. Album cover and here first track based on the Crystal Palace fire as seen above. The original poem was written in 1982 one of my earliest. The collection will provide spoken word…
FOSSILS: Dark Weather
The playgrounds were strewn with ashSmoke still billowed from the underpassFurther out in the estuary steam roseFrom the tanker now beached and rusting Lights now only flickered around the estateOn every other day to conserve energyMilk floats converted to run on steamCarried bodies of those who froze Up the icy streets to the crematoriumThe one…
The Moon Turned Dark: Dark Weather
Moon Turned Dark MOON TURNED DARK (LG Revised version) June 1783 a balloon of hot air made of paper is launched then a test of silk and hydrogen that travels 15 miles before crashing into the minds of two peasants who attack the monster despite the authorities appeal not to be scared of these globes…