A Brush with Words: Sea Change
Sea Change by M.J.Mott
Oil/Mixed media on board 23″ x 19″
Continuing in our look back at the art and poetry exhibition, ‘A Brush with Words’, here is Sea Change which inspired the poem ‘Where the Dark Is Rising’ by Rita Carter and ‘Magic island’ by Trevor Innes
Where the Dark Is Rising
(for Sea Change)
Dynamo
ringed in the fish-eye
diver’s head
coal black
neophyte
Where the dark is rising
thought-fishes dart
a scion into a cloud burst
embryo tree
Rita Carter
Magic island
(for Sea Change)
A joining axis wheel,
china blue on white,
beneath the green tree
makes a path scross the sea
Where three fish swim
through a dark-eyed moon.
something holds this
all together, more
than a Norse dream. The tree
is placed in a cloud. The dark
sky recedes around.
Ferdinand is buried somewhere.
He’ll return to find love
and his father on an island where the tree
holds no monster but a wheel.
Happy endings can be found.
Trevor Innes
A Brush with Words: Brief Parting
By Eric Seeley, ‘Brief Parting’ oil painting
Continuing in our look back at the art and poetry exhibition,
A Brush with Words, here is Brief Parting, by Eric Seeley and Tricia Torrington.
In Praise of Blue
(For a Brief Parting)
Because there was a blue heat
Sweating our bodies to slow burn
Because there was a pure moon
Edging the sun to a swift end
Because there was a wide bay
gritting its teeth to our soft skin
Shadows enveloped us
So that we hid ourselves
Now the hills will neve be too high again
And loose limbed beaches never
So stretched, tanned, warm again,
We had seven blue days
because it was a week where we lost time
I will always lose time remembering…
Tricia Torrington
A Brush with Words: Icarus
Sally Scott, ‘Icarus’ Sandblasted and Engraved Flash Glass Disc
22″ diameter; slate base 7″ x 27″
Continuing in our look back at the art and poetry exhibition, A Brush with Words, here is Icarus, by Sally Scott and Tricia Torrington.
Tonight
(for Icarus)
Tonight I would give you a list of things
not to forget…
Keep land in mind, your feet
tipped to the magnetic -
I wish it was tonight we could become
extraordinary
for the sky is bright enough with all
its winking heroes
Orion, Perseus, the shield of Achilleus -
and the Wain,
keep that in mind, that group of stars
that turns always
on the same point, the only ones that never bathe
in the sea -
Tonight I would have you remember Homer’s
“weariless sun”,
It is love that attracts us like moths.
But how it burns.
Tricia Torrington
A Brush with Words: The Langdale
Annie Hudson ‘Langdale’ oil 5″ x 16″
In October 2005, the Border Poets, a group of poets in the Shropshire area led by Roger Garfitt, together with members of the Royal Academy Schools Alumni (RASA) collaborated to produce an exhibition of poetry and art. The exhibition A Brush with Words, curated by Michael Sangster, took place at Martin’s Gallery in Cheltenham during the literary festival. We will be displaying some of the images and poems on this page over the next few months.
To srart the series, here is The Langdale by Amanda Attfield and Annie Hudson.
Dinosaur Eye (The Langdale) Amanda Attfield
You had the small box held up to your eyes,
I said What can you see? I wanted to be
lifted up so I could see, I wanted to see.
I wanted to see. I could hear it. Like breathing,
like when snow fell on dry leaves
in the woods at the back of our house,
where I wasn’t to go unless someone could
see me, or hear them call me, because
of that boy who went there and was
found crumpled up under a hedge.
The bridge had a V shape in it. You
could stand in and not get knocked by the traffic.
When I was older, I would make a rule
that all walls must have steps, and all bridges
must be of glass so I could see over, under,
through and down to where the breathing was.
She lifted me up. She gave me the small box
to look through. There was its one eye, and
the crag that was its head. A nose must be
somewhere for the breathing and feet, and
a tail, planted in the body of the hill
ready to burst out, and trample the bridge to pieces.
Ready for me to make it better, make it glass.
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