Spring 2014 portrait

Pictogram poem, India 1998

Pictogram poem, written on the bus journey between 

Ahmedabad and Bhavnagar in Gujarat, India in 1998

Cloak

                        i.m. Margaret Gimblett

A bough bends, and in

the distance a cloak of

black birds sings and

clings to a bare tree.

We are moving together;

there’s one cloud of us

huddled around a light.

The birds move to another

branch, the cloud breaks,

shakes into raindrops.

But the sky will hold

us loosely and proud.

Poetry reading, 15th January 2014

Photos © John Briggs, 2014

Poetry / novel reading at Ye Olde Murenger House, Newport. 

Poetry reading, 15th January 2014

Photo © John Briggs, 2014 

Public Reading

I will be reading from Monkey - Selected India Poems, We Go Down Slowly Rising and A Golden Age tomorrow:

Wed 15 Jan 14

Open Mic Poetry Extravaganza 3 at Ye Olde Murrenger House, Newport on Wednesday, January 15th, 2014, 7.30 to 9.00 p.m.  Featuring John Gimblett, Julie McGowan, Bernard Pearson, Alan Roderick and special guests. £5-00 admission on the door (£3-00 concessions). Fundraiser by  the Handpost Community Library Association to help re-open the former Stow Hill Library.