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by Peter Cowlam
Words by Peter Cowlam; music composed by Jamie Roberts and released under CC0 licensing; effects curated by Jamie Roberts, and courtesy freesound.org. Original voice recording by Jeff Lowe, and studio production by Jamie Roberts. ‘Follow Me Down’ is a forty-eight-line poem.
Follow Me Down was broadcast last July on Saturday evening on BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Wiltshire, BBC Radio Bristol and BBC Radio Somerset.
Follow Me Down
I guess at how these addictions turned
into today’s stone mortuary, a cold world
of daylight where everything is neglect –
my suburbia a reference point
where the fences pale, and the way is bindweed
heaped on a path running dawn to dawn
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Peter Cowlam is a poet and novelist. As a novelist, he has won the Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction twice, most recently in 2018 for his novel New King Palmers, which sits at the intersection of old, crumbling empires and new, digital agglomerates. The Quagga Prize is awarded for independently published works of fiction. His other work has appeared in The Battersea Review, The San Francisco Review of Books, The Blue Nib, The Galway Review, Easy Street, Literary Matters, Eunoia Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, The Four Quarters Magazine, The Liberal, and others.
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