Magical Mystery Tour

Yesterday, the students on the MA in Creative Writing went on a "magical mystery tour" in Leicester. Here is a kind of scrapbook of some of the strange, banal, familiar, unfamiliar, uncanny things we all saw ...

Pub Wisdom (photo by JT)

 

Pub Décor - perhaps an allusion to Francis Bacon's Screaming Popes? (photo by JT)

 

"All property is theft" (Proudhon) (photo by JT)

 

Frames ready for the wall art (photo by JT)

 

Very dangerous roofs (photo by JT) 

 

Wall poetry (photo by JT) 

 

Post-alley party (photo by Rosalind Adam)

 

Aspirations (photo by Rosalind Adam).

 

 

Rosalind Adam drafted the following poem, inspired by the last photograph:

 

Aspirations

A row of flats above grey garages
where grey sheets hang
along grey passages
high above the plot where
once unwilling boys,
11+ failures,
were crammed in
crammed with
knowledge they’d never use,
so now they live
in flats above grey garages
and hang their grey sheets
along grey passages.