E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK

Tim Liardet 's new pamphlet from Shoestring Press, Priest Skear , was launched last night in London.   Priest Skear is a collection that explores images of drowining, rescue, hope, and hopelessness, with profound humanity and poetic ability - not always combined as movingly as here.   Eyewear is very glad to be able to showcase two poems from this work, below. R I D I N G   T H E   G H O S T L Y    V E L O C I P E D E It’s said that drowning can be beautiful (…though the ones who said it were not the ones who had to drown). The surrender, perhaps, to the arms of water Shelley was gripped by—able to fly, but not to swim. And this my bid to join the fellowship of the drowned— more terrible than beautiful—these the fathoms striped with a route-map of light, this my bicycling down and down on the pedals of my feet with my arms thrown out wide as if to steer through imploding water the velocipede whose handlebars I tried to grip, but cou...