I seem to be having my allotted 15 minutes of fame (thank you Andy warholl) I played my new song love in the red on county radio (you can listen here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p002p7p4/Cambridgeshire_Breakfast_with_Jeremy_Sallis_10_04_2009/(I am about 2hours 20 minutes into the three hour show, so use that fast-forward button) and I am wheeled in as a "Lewis Expert for an excellent documentary about Michael Wards amazing new book Planet Narnia. The documentary is called Planet Narnia and is screened on BBC1 on Thursday 16th of April at 10:35pm. Meantime I make space for my muse whenever I can. Heres a little sonnet addressed to my trusty Gibson J45:
Hollows
I lift you lightly, you were made for me;
No box of rain to give the grateful dead,
But breath instead and beauty for the living
A certain shaping of the mountain air
Censes its gentle wood-scent in your hollows
The high, dry, hallows of Montana
First saw you braced and fretted, resonant
And ready to be sounded into song,
The smallest tremor trembles through your form
And turns the air to music. My full heart
Is poured into your forming emptiness
And given back as passion for another,
Your hollows hold a weight that sets me free
I lift you lightly, you were made for me.