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Last Tango of Clarence Clementine

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There can be beauty in bleakness and the book is full of atmospheric poetry with lots of cold raging winds, wild storms, rain and a few more ghosts. Throughout the unfolding poetic tales there is always a constant and recurring theme encompassing those strange hours as the sun goes down and following a dusk that reveals many types of moon (bitter, pale, spooky, vespertine and waning) all suspended in their crushed and bruised skies.

All of the places and landscapes featured really exist and if visit Vienna, search out that Street of The Beautiful Lantern and explore the mystique of those Venetian islands. 

The characters in Blob, The Girl With Stars in Her Eyes, and The Loch Ness Monster Man are quite real and yes, Frankie really does go to Asda!

The Last Words is a featured project that I have had on hold for the best part of a decade … it is both a painful and poignant subject to write into prose and adapt or interpret another’s thoughts into something lasting rather than final. The idea was to think about what if everybody in the world had kept a record of the people they knew or loved last words as a memorial. But hopefully among the sadness you will find scattered around other poems reflecting humour as a balance to cause a smile because ultimately poetry is all about passions and emotions.

Also included are a handful of rediscovered songs (originally thought lost or archived and hidden away) that kind of work as re-written poems. These were originally composed and some recorded back in the 1970s and are published all together for the first time along with a homage to a little bit of rock n’ roll.

And as for Clarence Clementine … well next time you are mooching around your local market or that shop full of vintage pieces and curios, I’m sure if you look carefully you might discover your very own troubadour of true life tales and exotic unexpected adventures … just look for that mesmerising glinting sparkle in their eyes.

And thank you to the following Rock Bands and Artists who kindly collaborated with me personally in writing the prologue, intermission sequence and epilogue:

Canned Heat

Nazareth

Kiki Dee and Carmelo Luggeri.

The words they wrote deliberately provide antithetical meditations to the mystical themes in the book.