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Kalinka Komrade
Kalinka Komrade Leslie was cruising along the Thames With his Russian bride Natasha They were travelling to Algiers A Green Jesus smiled at them From the Hanging Woods Kalinka Kalinka On the towpath near the snowball trees Children sang and danced to the Russian song In the main square of the maiden town A […]
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L’Arrivee d’un train en gare de La Ciotat
I wonder if the Lumiere brothers haunt this station still Or is it a trick of the light A slight of the eye As the train arrives
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Swimming Pool at La Ciotat
Many years ago when travelling through the South of France I split up with my boyfriend after an argument and found myself alone and waiting for a train at La Ciotat railway station My intention was to travel to Nice where the father of my best friend lived But I did not really want to […]
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The Dziga Vertov Group and Sally Ann
I was a member of the Dziga Vertov Group until I anticipated the coming of the TGVs Fast trains had always fascinated me and I had spent hours making love to Sally Ann next to slow moving branch lines waiting for advances in railway technology The opportunity to fuck her next to the railway tracks […]
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The Generation of 98
What are you writing about at present? The Generation of 98 have you heard of them? Vaguely They were a group of novelists and poets and philosophers active in Spain in 1898 Lorca was a member I believe That would have been hard as Lorca was born in 1898 Who were the Generation of 98? […]
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Victory
I sketched for a minute and drew a hunched figure in a cloak The figure was looking into a valley The title of this sketch was Victory Have you written any further poems? Yes There is only one May I see it? It is a slightly mysterious and maybe nostalgic poem But I do not […]
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Stephen Masefield
Stephen Masefield Stephen Masefield was a young poet who died in a car crash aged nineteen His imagination was as fertile as it was undisciplined But it was magnificent The King The King is fond of his games Let us on this occasion indulge him Blind Language I have always admired the language […]
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Area B
I was standing under the railway bridge that spanned the road that led towards Westbury The bridge which was part of the Westbury Avoiding Line had been constructed in 1933 but it looked older and more worn I was waiting on the narrow pavement which was opposite the much safer raised pavement But nobody took […]
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Melksham Spa
There is a SPA Near the HAHA Not far from the CINEMA Showing LALA Land
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Melksham Railway Station
Decay has set in although it is not yet terminal The station sees more trains these days Which is a small improvement But the neglect of the past still hangs heavily in the air I am in the utilitarian waiting shelter And can sense the railwaymen of the past Remembering the people from this once […]