James Truan
For Sam for Me
freefall like Lucky skipping up a path under ballooning
white sheets Frankie on the radio love and marriage
ideas bikes on tar pavements the tin stream through
our street
a Cornish childhood
then at seventeen you gave me Godot
Northcott and Nettles nineteen seventy
Is this what a play can say and do?
ideas a youthful attempt to write
Beckett-style much admired though no-one knew
alcoholic sleepwalk
thirty years of dead-end emotion
like Lucky
there was enough rope to hang myself
here I am
we’re both fifty three boys the play and me
like Blair and Portillo Jim Davison Mandy
(at least one of these gobbed blood into brandy)
you listened to everything they had to say
now is my turn my time to play
James Truan lives in Cornwall. As a teenager, in the late 1960s, he had several poems published in local magazines. He is now writing again, after a break of almost thirty years.
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- 10th Muse
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- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
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- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
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- Fabric
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- Floating Bear, The
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- Frogmore Papers, The
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- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
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- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The