Merry
Lion
White
Oak
Pied
Horse
Bell
& Fox
Black
Britannia
Pied
Hounds
Odd
Bell
Horseshoe
& Keys
Angel
House
Barley
Royal
Street
Hounds
Railway
Waggon
New
Head
Black
Angel
Swan
Kings
Queen
O’Bells
Old
Junction
New
Blue
Red
Chequers
Green
Prince
Wheatsheaf
& Woolpack
Crowned
Dragon
White
Castle
Green
Mermaid
The
Jolly Jolly
A Note on the Poetics
I made this piece by jumbling up the names of real pubs in Rutland to create new and surprising names that sound as if they might exist, somewhere.
Mark Valentine lives in Yorkshire, England. He likes second-hand bookshops, vegan food, canalside walks, village hall flea markets and antiquarian mysteries. A chapbook, Astarology, was issued by Salo Press in 2021, and his work has appeared in M58, Reliquiae, ink, sweat & tears, PN Review and elsewhere. His stories and essays are published by Tartarus (UK), Zagava (Germany), Sarob (France) and Swan River (Ireland). He is the keyboardist in The Mystic Umbrellas and the reviver of the Victorian travel game 'Cat-at-the-Window'.
the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan
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