Poems For Sale

   Due to the proverbial 'technical hitches' (in this case a euphemism for a frank lack of internet know-how), I've just realised that the Paypal button I added to this blog allowing people to purchase copies of Human Form hasn't been working.
  So I'm officially relaunching it now - the book is now available for the reduced price of £7.99 directly from me and with free UK postage and packaging. You can also contact me at: oliverdixon91@gmail.com
  Here's a taster from the book, including the lines Tom Chivers adds to the page about Human Form on the Penned in the Margins website:   
 

        THE DURATION

So many things have come apart

in my hands or somehow gone astray

they could form a museum,                                                                  

a mausoleum of errings and shortfalls.

Like the one we drifted into when at a loss

that unrepeatable afternoon

we explored the historical market-town

in the rain. The vitrines of stuffed curiosities –

faded hoopoe with its punkish mohawk,

a pangolin like an outsize fir-cone

 endowed with limbs – amounted you said

to a ‘colonial mortuary’. The crude diorama

of a blacksmith’s forge – ventriloquist’s dummy

about to smite a horse-shoe while his wife

 and child look blankly on – was so unlife-like,

I wondered what a diorama of our lives

might resemble, a tableau vivant of Post-Everything

Ennui: mannequins of the three of us

watching adverts, waiting for the sky to clear,

my finger poised to hazard a futile suggestion

(like exploring an historical market-town)-

locked into our stances for the duration.