Piering Back Comments

This is a really interesting poem, not least because it preserves in time the latest gadgets (a la Sat Nav) and tells everyone in no uncertain terms that our summer this year was and is crap! Aside from that there are some great images, love the 'pier in it's salt-dog shores' and the 'miraculous cod'. Brilliant. HG: -) xx

You know, Jerry, even though I have never been to England, let alone go on holiday there, I was transported with great clarity to this holiday destination with you... This is a great free-verse. 'Empty table tops, rain-levelled, / open their faces to the thick charcoal sky.' He he... great tongue-in-cheek humour here, friend (from what I see on Sky News there, your summer has worse weather than our winter here in the Southern Hemisphere!) LOL! I thoroughly enjoyed this... considering the fact that Free Verse isn't always my cuppa tea! ? Sunshine from South Africa!