Poet John Hegley talk and/or worksop tues 29th Sept

Wonderful poet (etc.) John Hegley as been invited to talk and run a writing workshop. Get tickets in finance for the £3 11.30 talk (you can get out of lessons - even mine, first years!) or the £10 1pm workshop (see posters for further details). Get your behinds down there if you are intersted in writing.  Here's one of his poems and a link to more:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/inplace/

Love Cuts

Love cuts
love juts out
and you walk right into it.

Love cuts
love comes and goes
love's a rose
first you smell the flower
then the thorn gets up your nostril
love gives you the chocolates
and then love gives you the chop
it doesn't like to linger.

Love cuts
love shuts up shop
and shuts it on your finger

Love cuts
love's very sharp
a harpoon through an easy chair
a comb of honey in your hair
just wait until the bees come home
and find you just relaxing there.

Love cuts, love guts the fish
of what you wish for
and leaves it in the airing cupboard.

Love cuts
love huts fall down
as all the walls get falser.

Love cuts
Love struts around on stilts of balsa
wood love cuts
love gives you a sweeping bow
then ploughs a furrow deep above your eyebrow
love cuts
love curtseys
then nuts you
where it really hurtseys.

Love cuts
love butts in
When you're in full flow
and you're so glad
your heart's aglow.

But like it comes
it likes to go
without so much as a cheerio
and you miss it so
until next time.


Copyright: John Hegley.