Brochure | Ian C Smith

(from Middle French: to prick)

Former Post Office it shouts, High Ceilings./  Lots of Shedding wryly conjures a verb,/  heart pricked, irony defending feelings,/  warped aged timber edited from this blurb./  Verandas, Porches: ‘ye olde’ the sign’s scheme/  to auction my past, coax the needed price./  All I treasure hyped as a starter’s dream/ clamps me in nothing lasts forever’s vice./  Historic Old Charmer its description,/  that’s me for sale, my mordant transcription.

Ian C Smith’s work has been published in BBC Radio 4 Sounds, Cable Street, The Dalhousie Review, Griffith Review, Honest Ulsterman, Offcourse, Stand & Westerly. His seventh book is Wonder Sadness Madness Joy, Ginninderra (Port Adelaide). He writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island.