Steve Spence is joint organiser of Plymouth Language Club, which promotes live poetry events in Plymouth. He collages together material from a range of sources to create his poems. His poetry and reviews have appeared in publications such as Tears in the Fence, The Rialto, Epizootics, Stand, Stride and Litter, among others. A Curious Shipwreck (Shearsman, 2010) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for best first collection. His other publications include Limits of Control (Penned in the Margins, 2011), Maelstrom Origami (Shearsman, 2014) and Many Red Fish (Knives, Forks and Spoons, 2018).
Centuries from now these settlements will be abandoned. ‘I used to use a tennis racket for a guitar’, he said. Blind optimism is a real problem but there is little evidence of habitation and from our vantage point things still look interesting. Is the first taste of food with your eyes? ‘This book is reading the reader’, she said. There are shades of grey but this isn’t an arcade game and rules are in place. Can we really trust what we see? Why do we make images? Each painting is like a journey but you always wonder what they are reading and nobody thinks the current system is working. Inequality is a driver for sure but what about the violence? ‘I have a mandolin and I want to sell it’, she said. As the river winds through populated areas it favours creatures that operate in darkness. Speckled caiman wait below. ‘More about fish later’, she said.
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