The Sleepwalkers' Ball Dorothea Smartt

The Sleepwalkers' Ball Dorothea SmarttA script put together by Franz Kafka, Spike Milligan and Charlie Chaplin at a drunken party to celebrate the twinning of Royston Vasey with the Gorbals. A welcome addition to Celtic Gothic. Lloyd Jones Set sometime around now and yet also any time this is a beautifully surreal slapstick romantic comedy, wrapped around the forms of the silent film and the Gothic city ghost tour. A cross between Kafka and Mary Poppins Clara Bow meets Charlie Chaplin by

looking for her missing dog Quincy

a soldier and a poet

would be better it didn’t blossom

running water’s burning catharsis

over the floral hedge

Death having meant no harm

wonder and delight at the various world we move about in

Akl Awit Three Poems

she catches a whiff of something expensive in his Jag and is ensnared by a gift so desirable it may prove fatal

for instance

Holly lives in 2009

loss and love