The Power of the Garage Wall … Blog 134 by Ms Paige Turner
‘Dolly Pop and the Garage Wall’, one of the poems from my collection: Red Lipstick and Revelations has been published in South Africa’s New Contrast poetry magazine/April edition www.newcontrast.net
I’m very proud to be starting a publishing career in South Africa – and with such a prestigious magazine which was established in 1960 and boasts JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer as former patrons. I’m also a huge supporter of garage walls. My earliest philosophical conversations took place when my dad’s ignition to his Ford Escort van was switched off. We would have come back from the Cash and Carry: suppliers of Danish bacon and all sorts for our small grocery shop in Croydon. Subsequently my husband and I have enjoyed chat facing bricked walls. The garage at The Arbour: our home in Fish Hoek, Cape Town is a halfway abode housing washing machines and dryers, an outside toilet, a bucket and spade and two braais. This garage is a pause between what is going on in the thoroughfare either side of it and intimacy can burgeon when speaking to walls. I hope you will order a copy: especially Fish Hoek Scribblers or West Coast Writers or Creative Inkers reading this.
Closer to this UK home, I have one place left on Tuesdays/Get Inspired starting April 19th for five weeks and a few more places on Thursdays/Get that Book Out of You starting April 21st for five weeks. At the Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield. Email me for a syllabus and enrolment form.