Tulips
“Nice, red, tall stiff,
In a vase,
On a table,
In a room,
In our house.”
FANS OF SUE TOWNSEND’S Adrian Mole will recognise this poem, the work of Mole’s yobbish nemesis Barry Kent. Barry naturally wins the poetry prize for which Mole is earnestly competing, his staggering verbal ineptitude rendered transcendental in the eyes of the judges by his alluring roughness.
I was reminded of Barry when taking a look at the artworks of Jonny Gent, one of the founding partners of the Sessions
