Imperial Pub

Imperial Pub Burning

by David Halliday

Priape

Church Street is Burning

In the 1970s I started writing a new kind of poetry. It was based on the page as a canvas. The words themselves had multiple meanings depending on how you read them. Sort of like a crossword puzzle. The poems met with a good deal of success, being published in magazines and reviews across the United States and Canada. They appeared with illustrations/collages I created. I later epublished them under the name, Church Street Is Burning.

Church Street is Burning

A finalist in the 2003 Eppie Best Poetry Collection, Church Street Is Burning, in illustrations, short stories, and poems, tells the story of the poet as a young man. Lost. Abandoned by the woman he loved. Bewitched by the street he lives on. Forgotten by his God. Searching for some rational order in a world fallen on its side. And leaking.

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