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Hydro Hotel

Richard Price

The derelict hotel, the tower on the hill,
water in the tower,
the height of the tower, the place I…

The stairways can’t be trusted,
the lintels are arch.

The boy at lie
knows the balance of the woodpigeon,
the balance of his brothers,
my brothers, myself up here.

Brown light-switches and sheer masonry.
Fingernails scrape the watertank.
The boys in plimsolls pogo on the parapet.

The village among brothers, the place I…


Richard Price

from Frosted, Melted (diehard, 2002)

Reproduced by permission of the publisher.

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Dumfries & Galloway Scotland
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Richard Priceb.1966

Richard Price is a poet who moves comfortably between the lyrical and the avant-garde. He was an influential figure in a literary movement which he named: Informationist poetry.
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