Alan is a Derbyshire lad, though not so “lad” anymore, who moved south before joining the group in November 2022. He’s often inspired by reading international fiction translated into English as a means of discovering other worlds. He prefers to focus on short stories and poetry and a recent piece was longlisted in this year’s Fish Short Memoir Prize. He works on his writing, music and art from his home in Kempsford where he lives with his wife and cat. He accepts being third in line in a list of priorities.
He views prose poetry as being akin to the old game of pinning the tail on the donkey. You can read his ekphrastic prose poem ‘Nighthawks’ inspired by Edward Hopper on Cirenscene.com or find out more about the writers’ group at somewhere-else-writers.org
‘Nighthawks’ – Edward Hopper (USA) 1942 https://www.edwardhopper.net/nighthawks.jsp
A prosepoem by Alan Passey
A lightbox is not the ideal place to consider regrets. Whose history can withstand that level of scrutiny, that exposure? He recalls the French girl but can’t remember her name. Something about a wren, or maybe a sparrow. The tall man he catches in the darkness will paint him from memory. Regrets invisible. Shapeless. Seeping into the shadows to live with his secrets. This is the progress of man, he says, we are part of it. Evolution rues the day and savours the night at Phillies.
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