Preston Bus Station

~ squidditas

My poem ‘Preston Bus Station’ was shortlisted for the Wolverhampton Literature Festival Poetry Competition. This is me performing it on Sunday, 2nd February: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_lLhYX7JrM. I was a little drunk. The winner was a beautiful poem called ‘Cantabank’ by Jane Burn, ‘cantabank’ being an old-fashioned and exquisite term for an itinerant poet.

I had a delightful evening with a good friend, Ben, who was a stalwart and rakish companion during the whole ordeal. Our loyalties extend back to the University of York Poetry Society. After this award’s ceremony, we broke into the University of Wolverhampton and were lovingly harassed (or moved, by the Holy Spirit) to attend a Pentecostal service. After I didn’t manage to reserve a spot in the open mic, later, we watched it, largely out of earshot. Then we duetted lots of karaoke, unfortunately not managing to perfect the work of any Black Country karaoke stars.

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Whaddupp, my name is Sam Hickford. I am due to graduate my PhD from St Andrews in December. I wrote about Clare and contemporary poetry. I have a book, Poems Sketched Upon the M60, published in 2021. I have quite a few academic papers which you can find here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sam-Hickford. I publish other people here too, but unless it is signalled that someone else is the author, I am the author.

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