The Stencil Room
By David Smith
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Ever wish you could just go somewhere else? In this, his third book, David Smith invites you to visit places near and far, journey back into childhood and reflect on the passage of time. This wildly eclectic collection of poetry sings with melancholy, humour, wistful reflection and evocative insight, provoking a wide range of emotions from page to page. Written in a frugal style that makes for a rare accessibility to inner meaning, this is a thought-provoking and immensely readable collection of poems. Includes the poem, Cameraria Ohridella, shortlisted for the Strokestown International Prize at the Strokestown International Poetry Festival, Roscommon, Ireland, 2016.
David Smith
David Smith has over 48 years at CABI as Preservation Officer, Curator and latterly Director of Biological Resources and is now retired with the honour of being a CABI Emeritus Fellow. Having a long history of managing a living fungal collection; developing and managing projects on conservation and use of microorganisms; and microbiological regulatory environment particularly, the Nagoya protocol. In past roles as President of the World Federation for Culture Collections, President of the European Culture Collection's Organisation and the UK Federation of Culture Collections he has visited collections in 34 countries and helped set up and enhance collections in 19 countries. He has presented over 160 conference papers and has over 230 publications including 80 peer reviewed papers, 4 books and over 40 book chapters.
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The Stencil Room - David Smith
POST CARDS FROM CROATIA
MONDAY – BRIGHT AFTER RAIN
DUBROVNIK
You are encouraged to walk
the fat embrace of the walls
A tourist thing.
One side the sea, an unrecordable blue
the other, the harbour, cuddled snug.
Then you notice the roofs, raucous red,
Unweathered tiles, the guide tells us,
"A UNESCO gift from Toulouse
So we cannot complain about the colour."
Mingling amongst mottled brown originals
Missed by Serbian shells.
SUNDAY – HOT
LANDMINES
On the fertile plateau above Zadar
They planted their pernicious tubers.
After they had gone, Victor impulsively
Jumped his broken wall
Delving his fists into red soil, eyes brimming
As it dribbled through his fingers,
Then retrieved his tractor
Hidden in the broom.
In the village, the tremor slapped
A careless window, arched a cat’s back
Ceiling dust fell into wine, gossip
Stopped in the shop.
They found him as if asleep
Cheek in the pillow of his land,
A hand reaching deep, whilst
His life,
Seeped, ochre into ochre.
GREEK GIFT
I liked the clip.
To hold your poems,
you said
You who had not heard of Shakespeare
Yet wrote like a sage.
Sometimes I lost my way, maybe
It was in translation, when I left
You said, A sob is like a stone in the throat.
That I understood.
Your teasing about us (Brits) being
Painted blue and living in trees whilst
we strolled through your temples and fountains.
The poems, like you, have gone
Sometimes I place my fingers in the jaws
Just to feel your grip.
KORRINA’S VERANDA
This is where we talked
Her parents sitting just inside the French door
Smiling, content, she was happy.
Momma would simply place something in my hand
I remember a flower-press in
A walnut case.
Without direct translation from K
We relied on facial expressions.
Bowls