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Interview: Annabel Banks

  Tell us about yourself and your relationship with poetry Female, 37, student living in Cornwall, UK. Have written poetry since I could hold a pencil. What made you decide to take on the Pulitzer...

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April 1 – The Knife

We transformed the world with sputtered butchering when empty squinted people swung that ragged man by the river   set it down, squealing corpse into eatin’ tobacca. hair shining with blood   hunted,...

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April 2 – Squealing Started

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April 3 – I’m a gonna

I’m a gonna dance on the edge with a heavy fella his blood red hands will whang back at me neck muscles weak rubber dust mask goggle his irises to Look like a pig And I’ll laugh take another tiny drink...

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April 4 – Day 1

The sun,  it moved. Shone pale, paled and frayed in avalanches the crust broke and the water formed a scarred man with spread red ribs started small, did not grow. High puffs appeared to disappear,...

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April 5 – Work

  Today’s bargain is a little girl. She takes her place in tragedy. We give her to the young man, that gentleman. A doctor. Hand her about, over to the fellas, the men who work with broken pieces, the...

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April 6 – Poetry

poetry’s red worms are probing the  corpse-bush randy as a hunt   anger is a thin preacher face concealed by scales close-lipped mouth   unbuttons me for each new entry for each red worm.            

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April 7 – Cat

Gonna buy a cat to sit in the glory roof-tree   stole stained and spotted face like cigarettes   Her godless nature neither friendly nor unfriendly   but sassy and wild a son-of-a-bitch graveyard ghos’...

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April 8 – ain’t want trouble

fighting with his face my face your face     Everybody got scars me pain           how ya        who the hell   we ain’t complainin’ we don’t want trouble   O.K. he said if you mess in this you won’t...

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April 9 – Last Page

  I knowed you would   breast that there corner   palm to the tool   fingers (lightly) side to side   pulled out with tight -locked comfort   supported  across the kiss        

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April 10 – If a Man

  is little he can walk is red he can wrap up his han’   has women he will hear a blacklis’ has a wife he will pump her at the scales   wants nothing he will find a hose in the tank wants for nothing...

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April 11 – Action

    need harmin’ wants dance   ran reply paid keeping   come emerged   swung, moved waited. Hurt.   (Verbs, page 405)  

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April 12 – To the West (Tops and tails, Chapters 1-10)

    To the red country a fraction in the dust   Joad heard and stared at the little cluster of buildings.   The owners of the land came onto the land And all of them stared after the tractor   The...

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April 13 – Alive

    I’m alive, she said drunk on time Sure of jesus H Christ   I’m alive like lion elephant umph whale dog umph chipmunks gopher umph ant   one side then another  

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April 14 – Fight

Laid covered complained roared   rested   clinging dripping spitting shining     stopped.      

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April 14 – Secret Eye

  Secret Eye is quick water thief of her frantic face-work   hidden temptations,  now tall and pretty gold ain’t hurtin’ …   fight for a  piece, a little richness pretty. Kicked and sore–   you ain’t...

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