Viva Lewes Issue 117 June 2016

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COLUMN David Jarman Poetry in Motion Whenever I travel from Paddington, I make time to walk along Platform One to see a particular statue. Not the statue of a certain much loved bear, but the one by Charles Sargeant Jagger of a soldier reading a letter. It was erected in honour of those who served in the world wars, specifically the ‘3,312 men and women of the Great Western Railway who gave their lives for King and Country’. As a war memorial, it’s second only, in my opinion, to the same artist’s magnificent and moving Royal Artillery Monument at Hyde Park Corner. That’s also the favourite monument of the sculptor, Michael Sandle. Unfortunately for him, the Royal Artillery memorial is bang next to his least favourite - the Australia War Memorial of 2003. In a recent interview, Sandle described the latter as resembling ‘a pissoir in an upmarket hotel, designed by a thirteen year old, on a computer’. In the same interview he recalled how ‘my mother once knifed my father and he took her to court. The magistrate was impressed with her… and all he said was: “Don’t do it again, Mrs Sandle.”’ I’m not sure loopy Helen in The Archers is going the right way about attracting a similar leniency. Asked whether he was a glass-half-full or glasshalf-empty sort of guy, Sandle endeared himself to me by replying that he was ‘an absolutely-andutterly-empty-glass sort of guy’. The Meeting Place at St Pancras International is my least favourite railway terminus sculpture. It seems to get larger and more unspeakably vulgar every time I see it. Fortunately, a rather good statue of John Betjeman is close by. Better than the one of Philip Larkin at Hull Station, recently described by fellow Hull poet, Sean O’Brien, as looking like Himmler. Contemporary poets seem to me to have such a jaundiced view of train travel that Larkin may well be the last poet to be honoured with a similar statue. As I write, George Szirtes is tweeting: ‘In Cheltenham for the poetry festival after a nightmare journey… original train was delayed… 1 vanished train, 2 missed connections…’ In his poem A Station, Dennis O’Driscoll writes of: ‘An official announcement crackling like deep-fried fat/that our branch-line train would be three hours delayed…’ Eventually, ‘…like switching tracks, I start to pray that my train/ might never arrive, that my journey be indefinitely delayed,/my forward connections missed, that my cup might pass from me’. Such involuntary stoicism reminds me of Edward Gorey’s Alphabet: ‘The Tourist huddles in the station,/While slowly night gives way to dawn;/He finds a certain fascination/In knowing all the trains are gone’. Changing is a problem. Patrick McGuinness writes of ‘Correspondances/is what they call connecting trains, even when/they don’t connect. Even when they don’t exist’ Finally, Hugo Williams, in Day Return, writes of: ‘…a mockery of a train/…keeps slipping backwards into wartime obscurity-/blackouts and unexplained halts’. It finishes: ‘Someone asks if there is a buffet car on the train/and is told he must be joking’. 27
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