Readers often get in touch to ask how they can obtain a CD of my informal poetry reading on the 4th plinth back in 2009 as part of Antony Gormley’s One and Other ‘live’ sculpture’ project.
Sky Arts refused participants a CD of their contribution, but you are welcome to make a note of the link below that will take you to mine; leaving off my name will take you to the entire 2400 hours web stream now archived in the British Library:
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20100223121732/oneandother.co.uk/participants/Roger_T [NB:The British Library confirmed some time ago that the video is no longer available as it was incompatible with a new IT system, However, it still exists and BL hope to reinstate it and make it available to the public again at some future date.] RNT
Meanwhile…
It is never too early to start looking forward to spring if only to make the tail end of winter all the more bearable. Better sill, of course. something (or someone) might happen our way to fast forward a springtime of the heart even if not especially during its winter.
NATURE ON CUE
At a fence observing
how lambs frolic without a care
in their world
Burden of love starting
to lift, rays of sunshine breaking
through clouds
Cart horses in a field
canter by, chasing after the same
pretty butterfly
Among spring leaves,
fledgling brave-hearts egged on
by tree spirits
A bee humming our tune
darts away, as your hand reaches
out for mine
Time to take our cue
from the natural world's blessings,
count our own
count our own
Moving on, all spring
applauding us as we pause to kiss
by busy hedgerows
by busy hedgerows
At the highway, jumping
back in the car, two gay folks happier
than once we were
Copyright R. N. Taber 2007; 2020
[Note: An earlier version of this poem appeared under the title 'Spring on Cue' in Greater London Poets, Poetry Now (Forward Press) 2007 and subsequently Accomplices to Illusion by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2007.]
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