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- Cheat Grassi"once i cut my toe i'm sure, but it's your cut toe", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Doves by the Drovei"monkeys roses in the sand hearts", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Chorteni"On the ridge that divides", single work poetry (p. 42)
- The Stonei"I slammed", single work poetry (p. 42)
- Box Jellyi"on boat little boat and me on a little boat. push and shove voices but clear to us they were nothing but something that needed to be done, something was coming", single work poetry (p. 58)
- Secondhand Bookstorei"Your own story suspends at the door with the dripping umbrellas. You enter, down steps to a basement of shelves, where customers orbit potential buys, drawn", single work poetry (p. 58)
- Blood and Burningsi"Whenever I walked those grey streets", single work poetry (p. 62)
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[Review Essay] Wharfie,
single work
essay
'This memoir of a waterside worker through the 20th century is presented as an autobiography by Wal Stubbings but, if the text is the measure of authorship, much of the credit for the memoir must go to Lesley Synge, who is rightly credited as 'co-author'. It appears that the project to produce a memoir of Wal Stubbings' life and career emerged out of a general family history in 2000 to which he contributed a section. As Synge mentions in her foreword, this autobiographical piece became the 'master document' for the subsequent memoir. With this, she gathered information from further writings by Wal Stubbings, along with many stories written about him by family members, and other archival material including photographs, interviews and newspaper cuttings. Indeed, it was a complex task absorbing all this material and structuring it into a chronological narrative, in the first person voice of a man whose presence and perspectives on life were powerfully present in the source material. Synge has done an excellent job of editing and writing. She has presented us with a book that is accessible, well-organised and a pleasure to read.' (Introduction)
- To Remember Youi"I am saturated with an inelegant longing,", single work poetry (p. 64)
- Jacketi"A jacket does not bloodlessly exist,", single work poetry (p. 66)