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Frictionless Motion
As life experiences go, few can be quite as unsettling as being schooled by someone less than half your age. Sure, while I can gratefully accept a millennial demonstrating a phone app to me, or can easily appreciate the skill of a talented music teacher patiently placing my fingers on a guitar fretboard there are certain areas of expertise to which one may assume age alone confers a superior wisdom. This is not necessarily so, of course.
74 pages, Paperback
Published March 27, 2023
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May 30, 2023
This book of poetry was a delight to read whilst travelling back on the bus after a reading by Derek Dohren, guest poet, featuring at the Poetry Café in Gloucester Library.
I was charmed in my seat with this book in hand, and the idea of him devising poetry whilst driving his bus.
It is a warm, surreal and normal artistry offered to us in his work. And is peppered throughout with his reminiscences of his late friend, Ana.
I enjoy surreal poetry and love how he couples this with jumps between cups of tea and his journeys referenced across Spain, Paris, the Isle of Skye, ‘sheep on the road on the B2442’ and ‘Aliens landing on the B4444’.
Derek is an artist, photographer and more too and each poem paints a snapshot of his life or day. Enamoured by the minds of many, by art in the world, or at the bottom of a ‘bullshit meadow of latticed gold threaded like gossamer braids…’
All give us the ochre we desire in our lives, and the true turquoise of seas we yearn to swim in.
Frictionless Motion was a journey. A pleasant one. Which kept me company on the gentle ride I had, on a 71 bus back home to Tewkesbury.
I was charmed in my seat with this book in hand, and the idea of him devising poetry whilst driving his bus.
It is a warm, surreal and normal artistry offered to us in his work. And is peppered throughout with his reminiscences of his late friend, Ana.
I enjoy surreal poetry and love how he couples this with jumps between cups of tea and his journeys referenced across Spain, Paris, the Isle of Skye, ‘sheep on the road on the B2442’ and ‘Aliens landing on the B4444’.
Derek is an artist, photographer and more too and each poem paints a snapshot of his life or day. Enamoured by the minds of many, by art in the world, or at the bottom of a ‘bullshit meadow of latticed gold threaded like gossamer braids…’
All give us the ochre we desire in our lives, and the true turquoise of seas we yearn to swim in.
Frictionless Motion was a journey. A pleasant one. Which kept me company on the gentle ride I had, on a 71 bus back home to Tewkesbury.
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