Biography
Stephen Bone's work has appeared in various U.K. and U.S. journals including And Other Poems, Barnet Open Poetry Competition, Hinterland, How Do I Love Thee?, Ink,Sweat&Tears, Links, Londongrip, Poetry Nottingham, Seam, Shotglass Journal, Smiths Knoll, Snakeskin, The Galway Review, The Interpreter's House, The Lake, The Rialto, Yorkmix. First collection 'In The Cinema' published Playdead Press 2014.
Samples
Coal Tar Still available. A throwback to cigarette cards and iodine. Victory Vs. Spit and polish. The soap, my aunt, who wasn't, scrubbed herself with as if she were a stain. Her water hard and scalding. Used to ease her father's signet ring from her finger on hot airtight days and on me the time I slipped up. I have never forgotten the froth, the taste or the way she set down a tablet in the lodgers' bathroom beside the copper taps, like an unwritten house rule. An orange threat. *** Picnic They turn up now and then, the photos of our picnic; wine bottles dead on the grass, a heatwave's emphatic shadows, you standing on your hands, claiming you were holding up the world; and the other moments, the wasp attack, the freak shower. Have you your photos somewhere? *** Windfall I watch the shallow rise and fall of your chest as you sip thimblefuls of air. Listen to the clock move on the day, the tea trolley come and go. I tidy your bottles, touch your face. Tidy them again. I pour water, wind your watch. Open the blind;a windfall of sunlight drops around your bed. I gather it up. *** Ash In extreme age a girl would come to cut his hair - wisps that grew like spun sugar on a head otherwise smooth and pink as on his birthday. A towel around his shoulders, her scissors flashing like a heliograph he would sit by the open fire; watch logs bubble resin, listen to their spit and whine - white hair falling from him like ash. All the above poems published in collection 'In The Cinema', Playdead Press 2014
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Blog entries by Stephen Bone
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