{"id":1060,"date":"2014-11-25T06:15:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T06:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?page_id=1060"},"modified":"2024-05-01T19:55:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T18:55:21","slug":"diesel-on-gravel-1981-1989","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?page_id=1060","title":{"rendered":"The Tithe Machine – Early Poems 1981-1985"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Tithe Machine 1981 -1985<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My first poems after discovering poetry at art college and in my local Didcot library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some were published in the first volume of a’The New Magazine’ then just started by Gerard Woodward who went on to be a well known poet and novelist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unsure of my writing I used the ‘David Bell’ alter ego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1981-5 never shown these to anyone since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post art college first poems..reading Pasternak and Heaney…Bunting and W.C.Williams…and a hefty bit of John Masefield and Edward Thomas..love poems to a non-existent mythical England…32 poems including the mad The Moon Over Henley my version of Bunting and T.S. Elliot..I kid you not…with some Echo and The Bunnymen in there too:-)<\/p>\n\n\n\n