Geoff Stevens
The Café, Fermain Bay, Guernsey
According to Norman Mailer
it’s an American Dream of
king prawn, steak and great cakes
his ideal beach eatery
highly recommended
and deemed handy
for sunbathers and others
cut off from sustinence
at isolated Fermain Bay,
the near Naked in their beachwear
And The Dead hungry
who have arrived by little boat
or travelled down the steep midge-ridden lane
from the hotel carpark,
or the main Sausmarez Road,
for a little sun, sea and seclusion
by the pebble strand.
Café tables cluster al-fresco
around a Martello-style tower
built a century before
and look out over a high wall
to the shimmering waves.
A board, next to the café hatchway,
lists the food of the day
and enticing odours hover over uncertain diners
like seabirds ready to swoop
from a blue emptiness.
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- 10th Muse
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- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- 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
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The