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Underscore

Published 3rd November 2008
A5, 24pp, stapled, card cover
ISBN 978-1-905465-15-6
£6.00

A sequence of fourteen concrete sonnets (or sixteen, counting the Glossary & Index) and one grammatical one. Three of the former appear in The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street, 2008, ed. Jeff Hilson, see realitystreet.co.uk).

Further samples from Underscore can be seen in a concrete selection

An Invitation

Come to the garden surrounded with trees,
The oaks are dark with pleasure of the sun,
The fullness of its yielding has begun.
While the air’s still sweet with smell of sweetpeas,
Fruit boughs are bending with work of the bees
And beanpole pyramids lean, overfreighted
With fine purple pods; beneath their serrated,
Prickled leaves, the cucurbits sprawl at ease,
Which swell in a week to immensities.
Crowns of the earlies are yellow and done,
The fat little gems of their spuds are spun.
May gentle phrases of an August breeze,
Conjuring scents and sights and savours mated,
Murmur you rumours of how you’re awaited.

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