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C.J. ('Jonty') Driver

 

 

  

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C.J. ('Jonty') Driver

C.J.Driver has three major pieces of literary work coming out in 2013:
 
* In March, a sequence of twenty-two poems, under the general title of "Before", was published in the South African literary magazine, New Contrast No. 161. Most of the poems were drafted when Driver held a fellowship at the Hawthornden International Writers' Centre in Scotland in 2012.
 
* In May, the Kingston University Press are publishing My Brother & I, a short biography-cum-memoir, which was a joint-winner of an anonymous competition organised by the Writing School at Kingston University last year. It is priced £6.99.
 
* Probably in September, the Happenstance Press is publishing a pamphlet of twenty-six selected poems by C.J.Driver, with a biographical preface, under the title Citizen of Elsewhere.

 

Young Man Dancing

He danced:  a step,

Another step,

Retreat, reprise,

A twirl, repose…

 

No cause for joy

That I could see –

Much cause for grief

That one might guess

 

And yet he danced

Such measured steps,

Repeating them

Exactly placed:

 

Unsmiling face

Rehearsing there,

The backdrop shacks,

A sidewalk stage

 

In fading light –

And still he danced,

His audience

A passing car.

 

(published in Carapace 2012)