Familiarity by Nigel Pearce
Arts Richmond
Online - 29 September 2020

When the old lady moved, among other odds and ends
she left her household gods behind.
Cranky and racked with emphysema
they lingered in cracks in plaster
and, resentful of abandonment,
as ill-scented patches in the wainscot;
or squatted over lamps that cast a cheerless light.
Seasons came and passed.
A Lar Familiaris settled in the hearth;
music from the kettle drew a spirit
of the storeroom in from autumn mists.
Caught in vernal cobwebs
the old gods shrank from foreign homeliness
and faded from dank corners with a sigh.
from ABOUT TIME, the 2019 anthology of shortlisted entries from The Roger McGough Poetry Prize. Copies of this Anthology can be purchased for £5 including P&P from Arts Richmond.
Familiarity by Nigel Pearce
EGM and AGM
Wednesday 2 December 2020, 19:30
Online via Zoom
Young Writers Festival Competition
The Roger McGough Annual Poetry Prize 2020
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