EASTBEAT - JACK CLEMO

Poetry & Music = Eastbeat

4th July 2017

(click for map)

Featuring: Andres Miranda

Gergely Bandi,

Podhovszky Gabor

and Michael Collingbine

Abe Gibson, Mike Parsons, Paul Moss, David Kessel,

floor spots come early...

Kingsley Hall

Powis Road (off Bruce Road) E3 3HJ see map

Bow Road or Bromley by Bow Tube/Bow Church DLR

7.00pm

3-Bees Cafe 4 - 8: bring a bottle/cans

Austerity Door Policy - give what you can afford

JACK CLEMO

Mike Parsons reads Jack Clemo's poetry from "I proved thee at the Waters"; The Testimony of a Blind Writer's Mother - Eveline Clemo and, Map of Clay.

Meeting-points

by Jack Clemo (for Charles Causley)

He burst into my pit-land, grit-land,

Before I turned from it towards the sea

And his flying images have spanned

the continents,

wholesome as that broad greeting.

Frolic of rhyme from cruising fancies,

Or the snatch of a carved, compassionate memory:

Slum delinquents, a grim moor-backed killing;

Ship's roll in soft Pacific tremors

Suddenly trounced by guns; or he's pitching

Today's pew and schoolroom through a breeze of antiquity.

And now I lounge at Aggie Weston's

Near his birthday, near grinding Chesil.

Sailors play darts, ask a gospeller questions,

Rest their bare feet and sing.

I think of his shore leave, the mind's homeward voyage,

The thrust through wordy torrents until

The apt phrase was shaped and shining.

I can fancy the poet's hand

As close as when it passed me the ring

In the grey light of a Cornish chapel.