Synopsis
First stage winner of The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition. Ed Reiss lives and works in Bradford. Handy Stores Push the door – tinkling bell – and you’re in the puzzle of its atmosphere: a mustiness of pet-food, sawdust, straw and compost, lifted by a reek of paraffin. The woolly dog lifts its head from the deal-board floor and barks. The budgerigar cheeps and a sly man slips into the shop, or his wife blunders (startled armadillo!) through the frosted door. They linger with a dusting of resentment. In the jumble, turn the wobbly stand, absorb the pictures: plump radishes, hearty lettuces, clustered asters. And nasturtiums – dark green leaves accentuating blazing-orange flowers. Packets of rattly seed. A few coins and they’re yours – yours to grow their rambling greenery, to snap and chew their peppery leaves, relish colours, touch the trophy of soft flowers.
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