'Guile and Spin' to be reviewed in the June 2013 issue of "All Out Cricket".

I've just heard that 'Guile and Spin' is going to be given a really good review in the next edition of this famous cricket magazine based in the UK.
Really Looking forward to it!

Is it possible to write a poem on anything?
One day I closed my eyes, and challenged myself to write a poem on the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes again. Since I was sitting at my desk at the time, the thing I saw was a cellotape dispenser.

The Cellotape Dispenser

 

Clung to its roll cellotape hides, clever,

Clearly eluding the keenest nail and eyes

That search its circumference for ever

Tensely hunting the slightest nick to prise.

Like cellotape we hide the tortured end

Of life’s crude tears and long twisting stresses

And when we are called upon again some part to mend

Our strengths tangle into weaknesses.

But the dispenser, a friend of measure,

Will keep an outstretched hand so clear and free.

The cutter zips. The bond grows with pressure

And clearly through it all we learn to see

How with simple help at various lengths

From weaknesses can come our greatest strengths.

 

Stuart Larner

first broadcast on:

17/06/1995

The Northern Line

Huddersfield FM Community Radio   first published in: 15/11/1995 Huddersfield Examiner Huddersfield Newspapers Ltd

Feeling hungry?

but if you agree to a meal with an old friend will it lead to something new and exciting ?

see my poem

http://www.everydaypoets.com/the-five-course-reunion-by-stuart-larner/

my poem "Map Reading" is published in the latest edition of Kansas City Voices".
It's not free to view as an archive yet.

to purchase the magazine go to:

http://www.wppress.org/main/purchase/

"Guile and Spin"


now in paperback,


not just ebook!

Ever walked a dog at night?

A funny thing happened to me one evening:

go to:

http://www.everydaypoets.com/my-excuse-by-stuart-larner/

to find out what.

Did you a favourite toy when you were a child?

see what happens when I found my Teddy Bear again at:

http://www.everydaypoets.com/comfort-regained-by-stuart-larner/