Event

21st September
Adamantine reading at Chelmsford

29th September
Reading at West Mersea Library

Bio
Adrian Green lives in Southend. A former editor of SOL magazine and reviews editor of Littoral, his poems and reviews have appeared in a number of UK and international magazines, anthologies and websites.

Poem

Jazz on a Blue Guitar

You are playing for yourself
in a minor key - and
bending the notes in a private trance.

Drawing us in
to an intricate scale
on Djangling strings

your breathless phrase takes wing
and extends itself
in a chaos of percussive chords

and rhythms
breaking free
of chromatic intent.

Tonight you have us in your thrall
an unintended spell that binds us
to the echo of a gypsy scale,

unconscious of the legacy
from Stevens’ words –

things change from being as they are
with the blues from your guitar.

From Chorus and Coda, Littoral Press, ISBN 978-0-9550926-7-1