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Simon Barraclough
\'At a push, I’d have to say\'
'At a push, I’d have to say'
At a push, I’d have to say
that Seurat was my fave,
divining the prism
through Divisionism,
apportioning the visible
particle by particle;
a little dotty perhaps,
pointedly finishing
that damned hat.
I liked to spend Sunday
in the park with George,
making my entrance
with my usual flare.
Dogs and monkeys and parasols.
“Let’s go and get drunk
on light again. It consoles.”
that Seurat was my fave,
divining the prism
through Divisionism,
apportioning the visible
particle by particle;
a little dotty perhaps,
pointedly finishing
that damned hat.
I liked to spend Sunday
in the park with George,
making my entrance
with my usual flare.
Dogs and monkeys and parasols.
“Let’s go and get drunk
on light again. It consoles.”
© 2015, Simon Barraclough
From: Sunspots
Publisher: Penned in the Margins, London
From: Sunspots
Publisher: Penned in the Margins, London
Simon Barraclough
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1966)
Simon Barraclough is one of the generation of poets who came out of the workshops of the legendary Michael Donaghy. It’s a disparate band of poets who all write very differently, characterised to differing extents by an interest in form, wordplay, humour and wide-ranging cultural reference. Barraclough’s work is wry and witty, steeped in pop culture, bathos and – increasingly – science as a way...
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\'At a push, I’d have to say\'
At a push, I’d have to saythat Seurat was my fave,
divining the prism
through Divisionism,
apportioning the visible
particle by particle;
a little dotty perhaps,
pointedly finishing
that damned hat.
I liked to spend Sunday
in the park with George,
making my entrance
with my usual flare.
Dogs and monkeys and parasols.
“Let’s go and get drunk
on light again. It consoles.”
From: Sunspots
\'At a push, I’d have to say\'
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