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Nick Drake

 
 It is difficult to pin down Nick Drake’s poetry, which makes his book The Man in the White Suit all the more pleasurable to read. There are poems prompted by remembrance and travel poems and poems of place that demonstrate a gift for locking together the real and imagined world. And then there are short, intense poems like ‘Static’ , (a poem surely worth learning by heart) which are charged (in various senses of the word) with wonder.



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Static

When you pulled the t-shirt
over your stooped head
I heard the crackle of static
and imagined the soft,
invisible fur
of charged atmosphere
over the TV’s
translucent imagery.

Lights out, my blind
and all-believing hands
discover the ghost
of a smile
on your invisible face;
here you are
in your skin,
shocking against mine.


from The Man in the White Suit


 
Biography
Nick Drake was born in 1961. He lives and works in London. In 1990 he won an Eric Gregory Award and published a pamphlet of poems, Chocolate and Salt (Mandeville Press). He has also published a study of The Poetry of W.B.Yeats (Penguin, 1991) and translations of Spanish and Mexican drama and short stories, including a new version of Lope de Vega’s Peribañez and the Comendador of Ocaña (Oberon Books, 1998). The Man in the White Suit was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won a Forward prize for Best First Collection.
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