RIBA have finally put up the poem…so you can read it now I provided a ‘referenced’ version and a ‘clean’ none annotated version they went with referenced…strangely but there you go ‘Catching Light’….I have also provided a recording of myself reading (no footnotes;-) which will be uploaded later I presume.
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First Assignment – Influence?
My poetry bookshelves..about half the collection built up over 25 years…. I am really struggling with the simplest thing. The first assignment for Creative Writing M.A. is straightforward enough : Identify one writer whose work has been in some way influential to the development of your own creative writing practice. Discuss one or…
Barns and Stars…..aiming at the stars?
Finally got five minutes to sit down and catch up with myself and all the threads I have started off… I have not had a chance this week to read and critique a short story as I have been doing because of so much else going on. Busy is good but not when it gets this…
Farm-Hand’s Radio – Complete available as pdf
I found that the auto-print facility in google chrome means I can create a full pfd of the collection to share. Not formatted to avoid page breaks but all of it is there . It is also available online at this URL: https://shaunbelcher.com/writing/?page_id=117 Farm-Hand’s Radio Complete PDF also available at Scribd:
Pound V Frost: Left V Right?
Pound mugshot 1945 whilst under arrest for Treason in Italy An interesting session last night with Sarah Jackson again focusing on imagery which had an unexpected relevance to me and not in the direct way I might have imagined. There was a good selection of examples and the background reading was interesting if only because…
Edwin Smith – ‘Catching Light’ completed
Final draft of the commissioned poem has gone to Apples and Snakes and R.I.B.A. 6 stanzas of eight lines each stanza titled according to Edwin Smith’s cameras. 1. Kodak Box Brownie 1927 2. ICA Ideal 205 1935 3. Contax II 1936 4. Thornton Pickard Ruby 1904 5. Graflex Speed Graphic 1960 6. Ensign Autorange 1955…
Station to Station – Edwin Smith commission.
The Edwin Smith commission is turning out to be a detective story….nothing is what it seems…this photo is not Kentish Town station as represented in his catalogue..it is Walthamstow Central and it still standing. Wonder how RIBA will take the news. Shame I spent two days researching Kentish Town station and linking it to George Orwell….
Poetry: A bad day in the comfort zone?
There have been three Monday lectures on the course and two of them have been by poets and in addition a first Poetry tutorial session with Rory Waterman ( I have since requested changing to part-time so that will be last Poetry session until next year). I have had a hefty poetic boot up the arse…
Poem for poetry day – My Father’s Crashes
A poem I started in 2010 and finished yesterday… My Father’s Crashes We could tell by the engine When my father’s truck was home. The diesel engine would vibrate The windows as he reversed in. My mother would boil the kettle at 5pm Knowing he would arrive. Three times in five years he…
Edwin Smith photograph commission
35 Hallam’s Lane, Chilwell near Nottingham, 1937 A strange day. I was going to go to studio and write all day but I got knocked sideways by this request. Apple and Snakes and R.I.B.A. have commissioned me to write a poem on one or more of the photographs on show at RIBA from the Edwin…