Chris Tally Evans's Posts - National Theatre Wales Community2024-03-29T12:13:41ZChris Tally Evanshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/ChrisTallyEvanshttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3650198429?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profiles/blog/feed?user=0au7dv4e1it3i&xn_auth=noThe Hand Bitertag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2019-10-04:3152760:BlogPost:2869042019-10-04T09:30:00.000ZChris Tally Evanshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/ChrisTallyEvans
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">The Hand Biter</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">I read this, mourning, morning’s missive</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">Promise to daybreak scribbler</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">In his capture of the fading image</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">Underneath him…</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">The Hand Biter</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">I read this, mourning, morning’s missive</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">Promise to daybreak scribbler</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">In his capture of the fading image</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">Underneath him patronage</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">And scything saker air</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">How he hung on the wistful words of a whim in blind ignorance</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">Then drop, dropped down and broke beaked</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">Flushed clean as a turd round the U-bend</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">The glass descending stoops low to stick him,</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">His part unending, click boxed and ticked,</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">A disabled and a crippled thing</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">Mute poetry and candour retract, oh, flair, flight, flame, here</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">Griddled! AND the unsung stories not penned, a million</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">Still-birthed characters, are lost to us. So unequal here!</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">No wonder of it: click tick box makes funds go further -</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">Fine - and disabled writers, ah poor dears,</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 12pt;">Stall, see themselves as trash, ash, black ordure.</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span class="s1">An offering for National Poetry Day. This came to me after Literature Wales gave me the Disabled Person's Support Grant (with the words "we wish you'd applied for more") but, despite being shortlisted for the third time, not an actual writer's bursary. So they're happy to pay non disabled people to support me, just not disabled people to write... It is also, of course, for lovers of Gerard Manley Hopkins and falcons in flight everywhere</span></em></span></p>Four Saints Perform an Access Audittag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2018-10-05:3152760:BlogPost:2791952018-10-05T12:29:51.000ZChris Tally Evanshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/ChrisTallyEvans
<p>Hi everybody,</p>
<p>It's a bit late for National Poetry Day (you know, disabling barriers...) but here's my poetic story, Four Saints Perform an Access Audit, performed by the excellent Goff Morgan. Enjoy.</p>
<p>Chris</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/14equalstreet/videos/873893286138307/">https://www.facebook.com/14equalstreet/videos/873893286138307/</a></p>
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<p>Hi everybody,</p>
<p>It's a bit late for National Poetry Day (you know, disabling barriers...) but here's my poetic story, Four Saints Perform an Access Audit, performed by the excellent Goff Morgan. Enjoy.</p>
<p>Chris</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/14equalstreet/videos/873893286138307/">https://www.facebook.com/14equalstreet/videos/873893286138307/</a></p>
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