Politics and Culture
At the National Portrait Gallery yesterday (previous post)…..
[Yes, the one on the left.
Old Private Eye cartoon from Richard Jolley]
….to see the BP Portrait Award 2016.
As ever, an excellent show. Previously and previouslier. Here's one of the standouts – Benjamin Sullivan's portrait of poet Hugo Williams:
Fabulous portrait of a fine poet
I phone from time to time, to see if she’s
Changed the music on her answerphone.
‘Tell me in two words,’ goes the recording,
‘what you were going to tell in a thousand.’
I peer into that thought, like peering out
To sea at night, hearing the sound of waves
Breaking on rocks, knowing she is there,
Listening, waiting for me to speak.
Once in a while she’ll pick up the phone
And her voice sings to me out of the past.
The hair on the back of my neck stands up
As I catch her smell for a second
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Mick Hartley 
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