Poem of the Week: A.C.Bevan

Each week in March we are featuring a poem from one of the new Rack pamphlets published in 2015 and this week the chosen poem is from A.C. Bevan's collection, De'ath & Daughters. You can order it now from this site using the Paypal button (£5).

EVE                                                                                    

 …peeled the apple before she ate it, 

cored & pared & separated 

into bite-size halves & quarters, pipped 

& pitted, & destalked it.

Then she named it: Golden Russet,

Maiden’s Blush, Sweet Delicious,

Adams Pearmain, Yellow Tremlett’s.

Made her pies & crumbles, pressed it

into pomace, sauce, fermented 

juices, sparkling wines of moonshine,

applejack & scrumpy cider.

& after several pints of snakebite,

danced stark naked & debauchèd 

with a serpent through the orchard.

                                                                            

A.C. Bevan reading from his new collection at the Rack
Press launch in London last month
Photo: Paul Bevan