{"id":3172,"date":"2024-03-26T14:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T14:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2024-03-26T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T14:27:07","slug":"diesel-on-gravel-1986-1989-first-flash-ficitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=3172","title":{"rendered":"DIESEL ON GRAVEL &#8211; 1986-1989              First Flash Fictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"920\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/diesellg-1.jpg?resize=640%2C920&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/diesellg-1.jpg?w=712&amp;ssl=1 712w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/diesellg-1.jpg?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1 209w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/diesellg-1.jpg?resize=676%2C972&amp;ssl=1 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Diesel-2021_01_01-12_01_25-UTC.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Diesel on Gravel PDF.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-cc74bec5-14c1-42a5-99c0-ae48e9c14e30\" href=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Diesel-2021_01_01-12_01_25-UTC.pdf\">Diesel on Gravel PDF<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Diesel-2021_01_01-12_01_25-UTC.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-cc74bec5-14c1-42a5-99c0-ae48e9c14e30\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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\n\n\n<p>From 1986 I was heavily influenced by Raymond Carver and especially his book FIRES.&nbsp; Indeed I attended his memorial readings event in London and saw Edmund White, Richard Ford and Salman Rushdie read in his honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think this volume is the \u2018lost volume\u2019 as I was living at home in Didcot and totally cut off from literary world from 1988 until 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did do some readings through the Last Gasp group until I moved to Edinburgh in 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of these poems have been seen apart from in these hand made pamphlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-1-1.jpg?resize=640%2C853&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-1-1.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-1-1.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-1-1.jpg?resize=676%2C901&amp;ssl=1 676w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-1-1.jpg?w=1944&amp;ssl=1 1944w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-1-1.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Style note all hand written then typed on my mother\u2019s old typewriter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last few pages of the document as pdf have originals and some uncollected poems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blue pen and line through a poem are from Giles Goodland when selecting for a pamphlet\u2026I did not have second copies as everything had to be typed by hand \u2026so here it is..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diesel on Gravel\u2026..1990<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Diesel-2021_01_01-12_01_25-UTC.pdf\">Diesel on Gravel PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poems written in London and Oxfordshire. 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