Examples of Work
Bust Up
alarm-bell-body-language on the boardwalk serious faces rustling silences hand gestures shouting "this is not my fault" I'm not sure if they know it yet, but this place is just perfect for a true romantic break up
Phil Dunne
Flat Sundays
these are the bitter phases the mouth ulcers that change speech slightly the fleck of lemon pulp in the tongue the snake-paths of coal the new tide will leave
Jonathan Tuffin
A New Guide to Seaton Carew
1. Look at this café. It is open. The sign outside says so, though it is smirking when it says it, and leaning back on its heels pretending it is Jean Gabin, hiding away in grainy sea-fretted days. If this place had a hat, it would be pulled low over the forehead. It would be black, and greasy on the inside. 2. Look at these coins. They fall from light with a clatter like hooves on a street a hundred years ago, like rocks feeling it as they slowly turn to sand, they want the darkness of a pocket, but are thrust back into the waterfall of small change that recycles itself, always just one more to make everything tumble, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly. 3. Look at this rain. The Nichols Family have the Latest British and American Amusements, but we have the rain, cake walking down the prom in high dudgeon, hissing gossip into the doorways of shops that may not open next summer. This rain has the disordered personality of a man who talks to strangers at bus stops. It is wholly innocent, but frightening. It may never stop. 4. Look at this dog. It runs along the beach in a frenzy of matted hair, mongrel bitch of the Café Royal and the Golf Course. The sea is trying to catch it, to pull it in, but it can’t reach. If it could reach a dog, could it bear to forgo the town? The sea is endlessly disappointed with its position and its place. 5. Look at this clock. And these bus stops. And the toilets. The white deco curves lean into another time, another place. It was made out of love, like the Taj Mahal, and it remains out of stubbornness. It will not give up being beautiful, just to satisfy our pitiful expectations. Go away and be happy it whispers in your ear as you stride urgently towards the toilets. 6. Look at the man waiting for his bus, a single grey scratch against the stone, like something someone forgot to pick up when their bus arrived, late again. This is not a place you can wait only for a bus back to Hartlepool. To the south, where the landscape turns alien to provide for us, where earth is more metal than dirt, and lights pattern themselves through and beyond abstraction, the wrong switch flicked in tiredness could blacken the land, and welcome the sea. This man is not worrying about that. He wants to know where his bus is. He thinks he is still waiting for a bus.
Mark Robinson – 1999
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