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Simon Barraclough
\'Orange got its gear on\'
\'Orange got its gear on\'
Orange got its gear on
and went to go earn
a crust from the crust, an ogre
fracking lands where its ego ran
amok, unpicking mineral seams to nag ore
from beauty we thought would not wither nor age.
and went to go earn
a crust from the crust, an ogre
fracking lands where its ego ran
amok, unpicking mineral seams to nag ore
from beauty we thought would not wither nor age.
© 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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\'Orange got its gear on\'
Orange got its gear onand went to go earn
a crust from the crust, an ogre
fracking lands where its ego ran
amok, unpicking mineral seams to nag ore
from beauty we thought would not wither nor age.
From: Sunspots
\'Orange got its gear on\'
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