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Not Sleeping
But Dreaming

or
When Harvey Met Laura

A Cinema Sequence

FORTHCOMING
A5, 32pp, stapled, card cover
ISBN 978-1-905465-22-4
£6.00

A sequence of thirteen poems looking into some of cinema’s common images and motifs, each captured in a linocut alongside.

Contents:

Gun / Kiss / Dance / End /
Chase / Peril / Siren / Object /
Hero / Buster / Angle /
Close-up / Journey

Gun in the hand of a woman or man
Promises swift release.
The camera lingers
Over its sullen length
And the faltering of fingers
Its steel lends strength.

What if the plot
Had no more plan
Than round and round
And round they ran
Till someone or other got shot?
We found
In that a kind of peace.

* * *

My hand is as the hand of God
I point and people go
Now, having no words, I can speak
Against a sea of troubles, take up firepower