{"id":4002,"date":"2015-04-13T23:47:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T23:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2019-02-11T06:09:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T06:09:01","slug":"ghost-walks-6-10-a-poem-by-christopher-barnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/ghost-walks-6-10-a-poem-by-christopher-barnes\/","title":{"rendered":"GHOST WALKS 6 -10. A Poem by Christopher Barnes."},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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\nGHOST WALKS 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Marilyn Monroe\u2019s eyed up as a Stalinist,
\nWheel-cog in a pack.
\nThe vogue Manhattan telephone book
\nRoll calls her as homie.
\nWe\u2019ve sussed from Mrs. Nosey Parker,
\nWhose quirks aren\u2019t blown open,
\nThe whack, damn all, or skimpy oddments\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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*<\/p>\n

Friends parting at Battlesden House.
\nThe hot-bricks poltergeist of a double-faced Steward,
\nTumbles pails,
\nAmends for his red-handedness \u2013
\nPeddling watered milk,
\nA conscience twinge unaging.<\/strong><\/p>\n

 
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GHOST WALKS 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026 (Won\u2019t blab) sightsaw Marilyn Monroe, 5pm,
\nIn rents at Hilton\u2019s Hotel Continental
\nScheduled by Arthur Miller\u2019s union dues hang-outs.
\nXerox to Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
\nOur man in the dusk
\nIs on the Special Correspondent\u2019s List\u2026<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

*<\/p>\n

Rosata, the cold-shouldered nun,
\nKneads her offsprung paunch,
\nScowling to a curfewed heart-throb.
\nUnderlinen seethes, late-moon ashy.
\nOn a shoe-snow midnight
\nCandle-flames reduce.
\nIn Chicksands, the buried
\nNor insects sleep.<\/strong><\/p>\n

 
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GHOST WALKS 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026A subordinate out-of-ordered Marilyn Monroe\u2019s
\nDial-up risk, death warranting her.
\nHis faults are relentless.
\nJitters creep in dime-a-dozen shoes.
\nHe\u2019s a foreboding in a cinema,
\nRow 14, pull his coat.
\nTinsel Town\u2019s wayward one
\nIs a sheer daydream\u2026<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

*<\/p>\n

Daisies and ripe wood flinch.
\nA whirlblast makes faces at Pegsdon Farm,
\nSpiriting timbre from Knocking Knell.
\nOur Majesty stoops in the barrow\u2019s relics,
\nThudding the gewgaw coffer to be let out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

 
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GHOST WALKS 9<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026Marilyn Monroe\u2019s love mis-match,
\nArthur Miller, safeguarded the Party\u2019s tactic.
\nVetoed all split hairs.
\nDusted off Communism, absorbing, casting about.
\nForeshadows penmanship and life.
\nHead shakes to decry
\nOr labour these points\u2026<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

*<\/p>\n

A tread overruns Bury Hill.
\nSmog purges nightfall.
\nMoon-sweats bead a hell-born witch
\nImmersing the prayer-house,
\nTo stonewall mortality.
\nUnveiling, we tame the phantom\u2019s coach.<\/strong><\/p>\n

 
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GHOST WALKS 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026Marilyn Monroe, shadowed to Mexico,
\nAway-daying with intimate coteries,
\nThe American Communist Group \u2013
\nA moveable soiree, dance partners, FBI undercovers,
\nRevelling in sun, afterplay, firewater
\nAnd well-read confabs\u2026<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

*<\/p>\n

Above soil our tender aged
\nHaven\u2019t the stomach to go
\nBy the ustrinum,
\nOverstrung into unfathomed night.
\nOn unseamed freeholds
\nSide-lining Ashwell Street
\nThe casualty list gabble.
\nFrom earthenware relics
\nBust possessing disputes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

 
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\nChristopher Barnes
\nSome bio details…<\/strong>
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\n\"Christopher<\/a>
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\nIn 1998 I won a Northern Arts writers award. In July 200 I read at Waterstones bookshop to promote the anthology ‘Titles Are Bitches’. Christmas 2001 I debuted at Newcastle’s famous Morden Tower doing a reading of my poems. Each year I read for Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival and I partook in workshops. 2005 saw the publication of my collection LOVEBITES published by Chanticleer Press, 6\/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh.
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\nOn Saturday 16Th August 2003 I read at the Edinburgh Festival as a Per Verse poet at LGBT Centre, Broughton St.
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\nI also have a BBC web-page www.bbc.co.uk\/tyne\/gay.2004\/05\/section_28.shtml andwww.bbc.co.uk\/tyne\/videonation\/stories\/gay_history.shtml <\/a>(if first site does not work click on SECTION 28 on second site.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christmas 2001 The Northern Cultural Skills Partnership sponsored me to be mentored by Andy Croft in conjunction with New Writing North. I made a radio programme for Web FM community radio about my writing group. October-November 2005, I entered a poem\/visual image into the art exhibition The Art Cafe Project, his piece Post-Mark was shown in Betty’s Newcastle. This event was sponsored by Pride On The Tyne. I made a digital film with artists Kate Sweeney and Julie Ballands at a film making workshop called Out Of The Picture which was shown at the festival party for Proudwords, it contains my poem The Old Heave-Ho. I worked on a collaborative art and literature project called How Gay Are Your Genes, facilitated by Lisa Mathews (poet) which exhibited at The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, including a film piece by the artist Predrag Pajdic in which I read my poem On Brenkley St. The event was funded by The Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Institute, Bio-science Centre at Newcastle’s Centre for Life. I was involved in the Five Arts Cities poetry postcard event which exhibited at The Seven Stories children’s literature building. In May I had 2006 a solo art\/poetry exhibition at The People’s Theatre why not take a look at their website ptag.org.uk\/whats_on\/gallery\/recent_exhbitions.htm <\/strong><\/p>\n

The South Bank Centre in London recorded my poem “The Holiday I Never Had”, I can be heard reading it on www.poetrymagazines.org.uk\/magazine\/record.asp?id=18456
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\nREVIEWS: I have written poetry reviews for Poetry Scotland and Jacket Magazine and in August 2007 I made a film called ‘A Blank Screen, 60 seconds, 1 shot’ for Queerbeats Festival at The Star & Shadow Cinema Newcastle, reviewing a poem…see www.myspace.com\/queerbeatsfestival<\/a> On September 4 2010, I read at the Callander Poetry Weekend hosted by Poetry Scotland. I have also written Art Criticism for Peel and Combustus Magazines. I was involved in The Creative Engagement In Research Programme Research Constellation exhibitions of writing and photography which showed in London (march 13 2012) and Edinburgh (july 4 2013) see
\nwww.researchconstellation.co.uk\/<\/a> . I co-edit the poetry magazine Interpoetry www.interpoetry.com\/<\/a>
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