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VILLAGE HALL DUNKIRK

from BLUE AND WHITE by Huw Parsons

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During the dark winter nights I sometimes visit Staunton-on-Wye village hall to watch a film. One of the best I've seen is 'Dunkirk' and this poem is really a little story in rhyme, written just as events unfolded on that evening.
No matter what the film in Staunton is, and how gripping and gruelling it might be, it's stopped half way through for the interval, where the 'Burco' tea urn is boiled up, instant coffee is served in motley mugs, jolly sausage rolls fresh from the microwave appear on paper plates and you can even have a plastic glass of red wine tasting of jam. All this strikes me as being terribly 'English,' so I wrote this little piece to celebrate our distinctly 'English' ways of doing things.

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from BLUE AND WHITE, released February 15, 2019
VILLAGE HALL DUNKIRK: Words and Voice – Huw. Guitar and Electronic Effects – David Cooper Orton.

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Huw Parsons Hay On Wye, UK

Huw Parsons was born in 1954, grew up in Llyswen, near Hay on Wye, and educated at Brecon Boys’ Grammar School and Chelsea College of Art.

He feels neither wholly English nor particularly Welsh, with his life’s diversity a social impostor and a cultural chameleon.

His influences: the poems of John Betjeman & Phillip Larkin, the novels of Leslie Thomas, the song lyrics of Sting & Jake Thackray. ... more

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