Necropolis

A few summers ago my son photographed the changing face of industrial Birmingham.  My poems are an attempt to articulate some of the ideas in the images

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LDV: Washwood Heath (Necropolis)

Grit, backbone of Midland industry, ground out by the elements, glacial drift, geological shift. Upon gravel the city made its shape. Halls of...
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Saltley Gas Works (Necropolis)

A rise and fall of gas, power pushed from metallic lungs into the manufactured land. Life flooded the mechanical. Death hung in the air, choked...
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Urban Spring

A little sun warms the bones, loosens an inner spring wound so tight it might snap. Something dormant wakes a memory of earth and air, green and song...
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Aston Junction

Quiet and cool in the concrete cave beneath a criss-cross of humming roads the only movement - a slow ooze of condensation down clammy walls. A...