Adrian Slatcher Online
Adrian Slatcher writes poetry, fiction and criticism, and lives in Manchester.
A Poem for Valentine’s Day
A suitable poem for Valentine’s Day, one I wrote, oh, years ago, you don’t need to know.
One Day You Will Ask Me
One day you will ask me what I think of you.
My tongue ties, words stammer, eyes dip to the ground.
I say I’ve not thought of what you are asking,
But can’t say I’ve never, for that’s not the truth.
All I can offer you now is a puzzle –
That fixed like the pole star and fluid as magma,
My thoughts are confusion, both concrete and jumbled,
Both twisted and straight, half in awe of you.
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Art of Fiction – Blogging About Literature
- This weekIts a busy week coming up with some excellent events on in Manchester.On Thursday its the new Castlefield Gallery exhibition launch, Ever since CUBE gallery was closed there's been a gap in terms of design-led exhibitions, so its good to see this new show, UnDoing, a collaboration with Manchester School of Architecture. Also on Thursday, Brighter Sound […]
- All Our Pasts and FuturesWhen David Bowie came back with his "The Next Day" album it was knowingly an album that mined the various stages of his career. Not because that was all he could do (as the future-gazing "Blackstar" would prove) but because it was some of the things he could do. The cover of that album was a pop art collage recreation of "Heroes […]
- Resisting Conservative Narratives in CultureThe 1930s have long been on my mind. Weimar art and culture is a vibrant pot that continues to be worth stirring, and its ending as the Nazis came to power, remains the lesser tragedy, given what happened in the war, but nonetheless a tragedy that still resonates. And given that memories fade, or history gets rewritten, art continues to be a rebuke against f […]
- More Than Words: Book Design in Contemporary PoetrySometimes you only notice things when seeing from a different angle. Having recently moved house, I began unpacking my books, putting all the poetry books in one place for the first time. There are some striking designs in poetry history: the wonderful typographical covers of sixties and seventies Faber Thom Gunns; the stark look of New Directions beat poets […]
- Books Furnish a RoomHaving just moved house, it means I've also moved around 100 large boxes of books, CDs and records. A month in, and I'm still only some way through the unpacking. This is deliberate accumulation, years rummaging the second hand and charity shops as well as buying new stuff. I seem to have replaced the reading of books with the buying of them.That […]
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