How well equipped you look!
You’ve left behind the working year,
its cumbersome cargo.
Just one or two items of mandatory gear:
bikini bottoms, and a book
published by Virago.
Audio file
Listen to this poem — read by the author
Books by John Richmond
Chalkface Press is pleased to announce the publication of
- My Proper Life — Poems 1975-2017
- Bring Me the Sunflower — Translations and Imitations
- Another Kind of Seeing — Poems and Prose, Translations and Imitations
by John Richmond
Each book costs £10, plus £2 postage and packing throughout the world.
Email chalkface@icloud.com or john@myproperlife.com. An invoice will be enclosed with the book(s).
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