Gallimaufry
by Neville Conway
Narcissus Books 120pp
ISBN: 978-0-9543848-5-2
First published January 2009
R.R.P £7.99
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The Book
Love of all kinds, melancholy, happiness, death, comedy, depression,
nonsense, despair, philosophy, pathos, satire, relationships, tragedy – all
these are to be found in this wide-ranging collection of poetry, which
contains free verse, structured verse, word games, jingles, and a few more
sonnets. Something in Gallimaufry will resonate for you, whatever your mood.
Above all, though sometimes complex and many layered, these verses are
accessible, read easily, and say something.
LAID BY
Old in the flesh, we
and our loving now;
young in the summoning
of pilfered hours,
wrung flights
palmed recklessly.
We drove together,
parked (stock rites,
fresh liturgies),
subsumed, laid by
each other's sighing
death in life,
new-tombed inside
necessity. Cramped
in the back, you
crying out, I stayed,
encamped within, my breath
rife in your mouth,
name in your thought,
want in your blood;
my rout of self
cant, finally.One of Daniel's other poems to Frances
.
The Author
Neville Conway was formerly consultant
cardiologist at the Wessex Regional Cardiac Centre, Southampton.
He published two medical books, and fifty scientific papers and leaders. For
five years he was associate editor of the British Heart Journal, and was an
invited English language editor to the proceedings of two world congresses.
He writes novels, non-fiction and poetry. A short story won First Prize some
years ago at the Southampton Writers' Conference.
