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Sally Evans - A poem about print, i.m. Adrian Mitchell

2014-10-29 11 Dailymotion

'Death singles out the great, ' <br />and as this year's low sun subsided <br />it singled you - and the untrodden airwaves, <br />the fluttering impulse of internet <br />and clatter of movable print locked in cases <br />and blocked into pages of books - <br />the thump on the desktop, another pamphlet, <br />laser printed, hand-folded and sewn <br />in fabled back-bedrooms of little press offices, <br />at the forefront of speaking and writing, <br />for people, by people - <br />and the rhythmed babble of poets <br />as they speak out, and write out - <br /> <br />All this stopped dead for you just before Christmas. <br />We all stopped in the week we would have stopped anyway, <br />as your image and influence readjusted itself <br />and was seen for what it had always been - <br />brave exposure of lies, the music <br />of 'buttercups and landmines', <br />the shift of perception when a prophet <br />arrives in his own country, <br />in both our countries, overlong married, <br />permanent mutual lodgers, our languages <br />interwoven and melded <br />so we cannot untangle where one starts or ends - <br />the occasions, the years you spoke out for us. <br /> <br />It is up to us how well you are rewarded <br />for the hot spark of your words as they travel, <br />their iron.<br /><br />Sally Evans<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-poem-about-print-i-m-adrian-mitchell/

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