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Elastic Glue

Elastic Glue

£4.25

Poems by Kathy Pimlott

“The island has been left to dormice, foxes, hives
and the water plant. An old Peace sprawls,
flushing yellow to pink. The rest has gone over.
Across the bridge it’s biblical: plagues lay waste
to fruit and crucifers and just when you thought
you’d escaped, a wet spell incubates late blight.”

– from ‘Site of Special Scientific Interest’, in Elastic Glue.

Page count: 36

Publication date: 28th February 2019

Paperback ISBN 978-1-912915-07-1

GTIN: N/A SKU: 9781912915071 Categories: , , Tag:

Kathy Pimlott

Kathy was born in Nottingham, in the shadow of Player’s cigarette factory but has spent her adult life in London, the last 40 or so years in Covent Garden, specifically, in Seven Dials. She has had a rag-bag career in social work, community activism, arts television and artist development and now works on community-led public realm projects.

Description

Here you’ll find revellers, developers and dealers circling the city’s glitzy heart, Lenin inspecting Swedish allotments, and people hanging on to housing as the city tries to squeeze them out in the search for ever more profit. Elastic Glue is a pamphlet rooted in place, looking critically at the intersections of who and what we share our spaces with, and what that means.

This follow-up to Goose Fair Night examines the ways we own and are owned by land – how we both make and are made by the places we inhabit. Kathy Pimlott explores this through poetry which is sharp, lyrical, always political, and sometimes just exasperated.

Author

  • Kathy Pimlott

    Kathy was born in Nottingham, in the shadow of Player’s cigarette factory but has spent her adult life in London, the last 40 or so years in Covent Garden, specifically, in Seven Dials. She has had a rag-bag career in social work, community activism, arts television and artist development and now works on community-led public realm projects.

Additional information

Dimensions 12.9 × 19.8 cm
Format

Print, eBook

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