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From a wonderfully varied group that included both Word & Image and prose poetry, voters went for the poem that most spoke to them directly and David Riley’s ‘Bit Parts’ is the Pick of the Month for January 2018.<\/p>\n
David is studying for an MA at the Seamus Heaney centre, Queen\u2019s University Belfast. He has had several poems printed and in shop windows.<\/p>\n
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Bit Parts<\/strong><\/p>\n I want to ask you, You smile. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Voter made the following comments:<\/p>\n Beautiful imagery <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n the humour and relative conciseness appeal to me. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n I like the secretive flavour of the last line <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Memory, reality, feelings, all questioned. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n a very wander\/wonder-ful poem <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The pauses felt right.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From a wonderfully varied group that included both Word & Image and prose poetry, voters went for the poem that most spoke to them directly and David Riley’s ‘Bit Parts’ is the Pick of the Month for January 2018. David is studying for an MA at the Seamus Heaney centre, Queen\u2019s University Belfast. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-poetry-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15782,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15780\/revisions\/15782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndo you think we\u2019re in a film?
\nIf we get our lines wrong
\nwill someone step out from the Golden Mile,
\nput us back on track \u2013
\nthough they haven\u2019t done yet \u2013
\nthe director\u2019s a secretive sod.<\/p>\n
\nI like it when you touch my face
\nI don\u2019t say, just wait
\nfor your fingers to move from my skin.
\nLike all the other takes, you begin again
\nlook out to sea, wait for your cue.
\nI remember what you haven\u2019t said yet.<\/p>\n