Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Foreword by Suggs
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Tramcar to Frankenstein
- 2 Didn't You Have a Beard?
- 3 ‘It Was the Death of the Loon’
- 4 Bunny Money
- 5 The Invisible River: A Liverpool Interlude
- 6 Hypertension
- 7 America Was Our Hamburg
- 8 ‘Sound of Rock Fades for Deaf School’
- 9 The Stopped Clock
- 10 That Thread of Affinity
- 11 In Town Tonight!
- Epilogue: Deaf School and the Icelandic Constitution
- Appendix: Liverpoem, by Tim Whittaker
- UK Discography
- Sources
- Index
- platesection
Appendix: Liverpoem, by Tim Whittaker
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Foreword by Suggs
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Tramcar to Frankenstein
- 2 Didn't You Have a Beard?
- 3 ‘It Was the Death of the Loon’
- 4 Bunny Money
- 5 The Invisible River: A Liverpool Interlude
- 6 Hypertension
- 7 America Was Our Hamburg
- 8 ‘Sound of Rock Fades for Deaf School’
- 9 The Stopped Clock
- 10 That Thread of Affinity
- 11 In Town Tonight!
- Epilogue: Deaf School and the Icelandic Constitution
- Appendix: Liverpoem, by Tim Whittaker
- UK Discography
- Sources
- Index
- platesection
Summary
Part One
What I like about Liverpool is
walking up Park Road 4am.
hearing lark singing,
mid-February thinking
of Spring.
Seeing a ghost see a ghost,
see Chaplin seeing Kerouac,
seeing Dickens see Jung,
see Lennon, Brando and Presley
from a Paradise Street pub get flung.
I like the Old Hall Street
rain,
the soft Saturday afternoon
special summer holiday edition
weather and traffic information
rain.
I like Vauxhall Road's winter razor wind,
all the Granby Street Wunderkind,
going away and coming back
on the next
train.
The city is a Radio.
The city is an Echo.
The city is red sun on red brick
on yellow days,
the City is black rain on black rock on blue nights.
The City is a magnolia tree
in Sefton Park,
and Chinatown Neonlites just after dark.
The city is a woman on Bold Street and you want to
hold her breath.
The city is oceanirishmersey air
she's there again and you stare
to see her standing there,
sorry to digress
but you should have seen her in that dress.
I like the light on the Mersey
from Beresford Road,
light on the Mersey
at Otterspool,
light at the top of the hill
and light at the bottom
by the School.
(Quote: – ‘Liverpool and Venice have a relationship in their shared wondrous quality of Light and Water.’ G. Melly, 1973.)
Later on,
on my bike,
on the way to the Library
and I'm thinking about
George Melly
lecturing at Hope Street in 1973
when I was a different me.
What was it now… something
about Liverpool and Venice
and a geographical quirk
of the light.
making both places
particularly atmospheric
even at night.
The factor of water is involved
I reflect
But my reverie is dissolved,
When on my nose
a spot of rain
I detect.
From this daydreaming I must
refrain, this isn't the Piazza San Marco,
Even if the effect of watery light is the same as behind Tesco.
I'll get my head together
and disregard this wet weather.
Well, at least I'lm on my bike
and saving shoe leather
or at least I was until later,
much later actually, much later, in fact, that night.
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- Deaf SchoolThe Non-Stop Pop Art Punk Rock Party, pp. 244 - 261Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2013