David Berridge
THE DRAWER & A PILE OF BRICKS, 2019
In the new house the sounds had no
space, no sureness of near or far, nothing to attribute them to, apart from My
Racist Aunts. That’s us, they said. All of us. Your deal.
Hairdressers on a Central London street freeze, find themselves transported to a desolate seaside town. Ideas and projects are written for the drawer, a realm of the unpublished and unattainable, then inconveniently realised. A monument to the Third Revolution takes shape in a small bar, alongside an open packet of crisps, a way of sitting on a stool, and a resemblance to Sherlock Holmes. What fortunes can be told from the names given to alleyways and steep flights of steps? Who can be glimpsed from behind a fishing boat, or in the lengthening shadows of the tall town houses bordering the park? Is this romance? There is a house to be cleared, and a pile of bricks appears to be immovable. Is an old friend awake for the election? Hatch a plan for escaping disaster, robotic movements on the cliff top, as Aunts of noxious intentions trumpet, amok in the city centre, again.
‘Can you make a life out of a pile of bricks, or make a pile of bricks out of a life? Does Regis equal a question? Does Britain equal birdsong? Is there a good enough way to respond to this book that builds such a slight, solid thing from its own sly language?’
–> Joanna Walsh
David Berridge lives in Hastings. He is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including The Fluxus President, and self build with no energy bills or dog, a long poem on three scrolls. He works as a bookseller in London.
Hairdressers on a Central London street freeze, find themselves transported to a desolate seaside town. Ideas and projects are written for the drawer, a realm of the unpublished and unattainable, then inconveniently realised. A monument to the Third Revolution takes shape in a small bar, alongside an open packet of crisps, a way of sitting on a stool, and a resemblance to Sherlock Holmes. What fortunes can be told from the names given to alleyways and steep flights of steps? Who can be glimpsed from behind a fishing boat, or in the lengthening shadows of the tall town houses bordering the park? Is this romance? There is a house to be cleared, and a pile of bricks appears to be immovable. Is an old friend awake for the election? Hatch a plan for escaping disaster, robotic movements on the cliff top, as Aunts of noxious intentions trumpet, amok in the city centre, again.
‘Can you make a life out of a pile of bricks, or make a pile of bricks out of a life? Does Regis equal a question? Does Britain equal birdsong? Is there a good enough way to respond to this book that builds such a slight, solid thing from its own sly language?’
–> Joanna Walsh
David Berridge lives in Hastings. He is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including The Fluxus President, and self build with no energy bills or dog, a long poem on three scrolls. He works as a bookseller in London.
92 pages
170 mm x 105 mm,
60 mm cover flaps
Format: Paperback
ISBN 978-1-910055-57-1
£10.00
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170 mm x 105 mm,
60 mm cover flaps
Format: Paperback
ISBN 978-1-910055-57-1
£10.00
To special bundles offer ->
Next Book ->