Another Boris Akunin crime mystery, set in Imperial Russia, this time with the year given – 1900. Erast Fandorin investigates a series of suicides linked to a society of death-lovers, but all is not, of course, as it seems and the suicides are being helped on their way by anything from suggestion to murder – [...]
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Book review: Boris Akunin, “She Lover of Death”
Posted by simon7banks on May 16, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/book-review-boris-akunin-she-lover-of-death-8-2/
We will not meet again, my love
Sometimes I like to write in ballad style. This is one such. WE WILL NOT MEET AGAIN, MY LOVE We will not meet again, my love, Till all the seas run dry You will not be alone, my love If only you should cry. The woods have grown high, my love, I cannot see the [...]
Posted by simon7banks on May 15, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/we-will-not-meet-again-my-love/
I think these things are poems, though there’s a bit of damage and they’re of no great age. Start me at £20, anyone?
On to re-posting more poems with comments and expolanations of a sort. Here goes: GLASS The glass creation on the shelf In the early morning light refracts, transmutes The arriving light into changing colours and links That fade and reform with the slightest of gentle shifts. If you try to see through it the waving [...]
Posted by simon7banks on May 6, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/i-think-these-things-are-poems-though-thers-a-bit-of-damage-and-theyre-of-no-great-age-start-me-at-20-anyone/
The Herald of Free Enterprise
THE HERALD OF FREE ENTERPRISE On 6 March 1987 the car ferry “Herald of Free Enterprise”, owned by Townsend Thoresen (later P&O) capsized outside the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, causing 193 deaths. A number of safety measures that would have prevented the disaster had not been taken because they were seen as low priority or [...]
Posted by simon7banks on May 4, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/the-herald-of-free-enterprise/
Selected Poems of Simon Banks
(Well, about half my poems don’t make it on to the word file. They may survive in a handwritten notebook, or they may have been scrawled on a piece of paper and then I don’t rate them. From the word file a selection gets posted here – and from that, some which most seem to [...]
Posted by simon7banks on April 13, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/selected-poems-of-simon-banks-24/
Of course, no-one, not even the “writer”, can “know” what the poem “means”, but still…
…academics can tie themselves in some fascinating knots and, it is even rumoured, disappear up their own theories. Here’s some more commentary on poems I’ve already posted: EDEN The fruit slipped ripe into the hand The hunting hard, but always good, The trees made shade to sleep within That was the Eden we once knew [...]
Posted by simon7banks on March 30, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/of-course-no-one-not-even-the-writer-can-know-what-the-poem-means-but-still/
Gravity
The ship is falling into Jupiter The planet’s pull’s too strong for all our engines I cannot impress too strongly upon you The gravity of the situation. This very short poem (or maybe it’s just comic verse) allows me to do something I’ve been thinking about for a while – to re-feature some earlier [...]
Posted by simon7banks on March 15, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/gravity/
The Coming of Peace
In the parched land Peace falls like a shower of rain Seeps through the waiting and reviving soil Farmers go hunting it with pump and spade And fight over the holes they’ve made.
Posted by simon7banks on March 1, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/the-coming-of-peace/
Fathers
This is very roughly based on thinking about the early evolution of Christianity, not the very early years of persecution, but the great meetings that defined doctrine. FATHERS A congress of the faithful ruled That heresy, this solid right The darkness was defined and named They drew the boundaries of light But in the dark [...]
Posted by simon7banks on February 29, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/fathers-3/
The Immigrant
Back from a week in France and posting again! I think this poem needs little explanation. THE IMMIGRANT The immigrant adjusts his hat Squints at the unfamiliar words Tests the new land with his shoe Some casual abuse Is partly understood The hat is wrong but not the shirt. Wrapped in the now familiar streets [...]
Posted by simon7banks on February 26, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/the-immigrant/
