Elizabeth Bartlett
Photography Class
The Dark Room; hands on experience;
black and white studies of a foot,
a gateway, a motor bike.
Chris and Katarina are in their element,
making arty studies of life.
You can do what you like,
the tutor tells them, but
do it well.
The whole gang’s here.
Mrs A brings her transparencies
(work that one out),
and Hugo with his nudes.
Dr Moon brings equine fantasies
and Cynthia and B
some impressionistic shots
of the Seine. Long John’s
pensive photographs of kids
are not as innocent as they seem.
Zoe’s into wild flowers,
but Alice captures endless shores
or equally endless skies,
laughs at Mrs Herriot’s
poncy wedding groups.
The tutor? he aims
his zoom lens
at landscapes, claims
affinity with rocks and stones,
never pins down humans
in their natural habitat.
His topography is erotic,
but his wife is fat.
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magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- 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