Positives verses by Thom Gunn photographs by Ander Gunn

The photographs are powerful – this mid sixties world feels increasingly remote – the rawness and poverty of some of them does not exist in the same way in this country any more, which is not to deny the extremes of experience that continues.

It is not clear if each page of text is a poem or if the whole text should be seen as a single poem.

This is one page / poem that I particular want to share

In a Family, there is

a sense of many doing

many things, all different,

absorbed, in different rooms.

You grow accustomed to this:

the Rostovs have different

personalities, you say. Then

suddenly a door opens

and all the Rostov children

come out together, doing

the same thing in the same way.