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BITS AND BOOKS<br />
POETRY REVIEWS<br />
In the poem Column Inches, one of the characters<br />
that inhabit Charlotte Gann’s latest poetry collection,<br />
Noir (Happenstance Press, £10) describes<br />
putting a cherished memory ‘through my usual<br />
filters’. This struck me as interesting. I went to<br />
school with Charlotte, when I see her walking<br />
down the High Street, knowing she’s a poet, I wonder what she’s thinking. How does her filter work? Now I’ve<br />
got a better idea. Noir is, as you’d imagine from its title, a fairly dark collection, but it sparkles with moments<br />
of warmth and empathy. It’s got a very visual sense of place - it keeps evoking fleeting visual images of <strong>Lewes</strong>.<br />
There’s mention of ‘dark alleyways’, and the ‘county court’, and even a poem entitled The King's Head. I’m going<br />
to keep it on my shelves, and occasionally pull it out to read.<br />
Likewise, I guess, the other two books that have arrived at <strong>Viva</strong> this month. Stepping Back (Frogmore Press, £5) is<br />
by Jeremy Page, another local figure - the editor of the Frogmore Papers quarterly - who in this simple tome, subtitled<br />
Resubmission for the Ordinary Level Examination in Psychogeography, has collected 25 years-worth of poems<br />
he’s written about his upbringing, in a coastal town in Kent, where he once played scratch cricket, which now as<br />
then ‘smells of dead holidays’.<br />
You could say that A Downland Index, by Angus Carlyle, has a similar psycho-geographical bent. Carlyle runs on<br />
the Downs, and then afterwards writes a dense paragraph of image-heavy prose describing what he saw on each<br />
run. A book for runners and readers alike, then: a suitable shelf companion to Murakami’s What I Talk about when<br />
I Talk about Running, perhaps. AL<br />
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