Drawing the Line

Some of the poems originally intended for GR/Under the Knife have bled into being used for the expanded edition of Cheltenham. This naturally follows from the fact that many of the characters I used when writing the GR vignettes were people I knew in Cheltenham, during the years of my childhood and adolescence. This 2013 Otoliths page demonstrates how ambiguous the line was and still is, in separating the writer's impulse to find genuine roots from the writer's impulse to explore a specific period of time.