Returning Channels

By Tim Brenan

Returning Channels are water, words and wires. They flow shaping coasts, cities and people, occasionally for the better. They wash, they drop, they gather and sometimes they just drift.

Landscapes glimpsed include the concrete, the granite and the crumbling. Devon, Gwynedd, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Oswestry ... all combine with stranger sources. The poems could be about getting old, getting bored or just getting there.

Poetry is like any other distillation process. It depends upon the quality of the ingredients, the precision of the still, the maturity of the oaken casks, and the craft of the maker. The outcome can be the deep aroma of an Islay malt or an unpleasant poisoning. I hope Returning Channels is a bit of both.

From philosopher emperors on the train to a little known emperor of the wing, with just a mention of a taxidermy museum, much ground is covered in this book. It is a first collection from a poet specialising in the obscure, the incoherent, and the personal (not to mention the shallow).

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Mar 28, 2012
• ISBN: 9781467890632

Tim Brenan

Some authors live to write. The words flow sleeping or awake; always defining, specifying, making different. It would be a lie to say that Tim Brenan is one of those writers. “People have lived in this land of Britain for many thousands of years. In nearly every part at one time or another people have laboured, loved, created, farmed, fought and died. Their buildings, art and beliefs are around us if we care to look. Ignoring them disrespects their lives. It has to be a reason to write, to record.” Tim is a fan of Exeter City, watching football at the real, and now only, St. James’ Park. He is also a supporter of the Green Party. Often inspired in Wales, Tim Brenan lives in Exeter and drinks his own cider. For poetic purposes he is sometimes named `Y Brenin Llwyd’ ’

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© 2012 Tim Brenan. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

First published by AuthorHouse March 26, 2012

ISBN: 978-1-4678-9062-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4678-9063-2 (e)

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All poems, photographs and paintings - Tim Brenan Copyright 2012

Some of the poems in this collection have been previously published in Square magazine – a fine publication www.squaremag.net

CONTENTS

Power (Caernarfon)

Ebbw

Dickie Davies’ Smile

Ocean Reach

Arthur’s Seat

Oswestry

Advertising slogans appropriate for

the gift of Pickled Eggs

What could have been

Life’s shopping list

In tomorrow’s theme parks

The Duke

Mine

Tweed

Seven Ages