{"id":1560,"date":"2016-06-29T14:44:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T13:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2024-03-26T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T14:04:38","slug":"diesel-on-gravel-the-berkshire-raymond-carver-1985-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1560","title":{"rendered":"Diesel on Gravel – The Berkshire Raymond Carver? 1985-1990"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Poems written in London and Oxfordshire. Published in early 1990s in Last Gasp pamphlets. Last Gasp was a poetry open mic I helped run with poets Giles Goodland and Bridget Kursheed in Oxford.<\/p>\n

From 1986 I was heavily influenced by Raymond Carver and especially his book FIRES.\u00a0 Indeed I attended his memorial readings event in London and saw Edmund White, Richard Ford and Salman Rushdie read in his honour.<\/p>\n

I think this volume is the ‘lost volume’ as I was living at home in Didcot and totally cut off from literary world from 1988 until 1990.<\/p>\n

I did do some readings through the Last Gasp group until I moved to Edinburgh in 1993.<\/p>\n

None of these poems have been seen apart from in these hand made pamphlets.<\/p>\n

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This was the volume which would ‘break me’ I thought the world was my oyster…..I would outwrite Simon Armitage…<\/p>\n

Well hindsight is a wonderful thing I am unemployed and he is Oxford Professor of Poetry..<\/p>\n

I read with him in Reading in 1990..he was arguing with the arts officer over money..he a little more pushy than me.<\/p>\n

I was unemployed and dressed like Yeats and hadn’t got a clue that it was a poetry ‘business’ …<\/p>\n

BUT I could write…fuck lot of good it did me…..<\/p>\n

But this was all done off my own back..\u00a0 no University Department objectives to tick box ..no influential friends..nothing but words..and in the end words is all there is….<\/p>\n

Its as good as it gets maybe one day I get some recognition for all this but I wouldn’t bet on it…..<\/p>\n

Ironically I got recognition in Scotland……should have stayed there but that another story and the next volume ..Landmine…<\/p>\n

Och Aye…<\/p>\n

Style note all hand written then typed on my mother’s old typewriter.<\/p>\n

The last few pages of the document as pdf have originals and some uncollected poems.<\/p>\n

The blue pen and line through a poem are from Giles Goodland when selecting for a pamphlet…I did not have second copies as everything had to be typed by hand …so here it is..<\/p>\n

Diesel on Gravel…..1990<\/p>\n

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