Wendy Holborow: After the Silent Phone Call
Wendy Holborow
After the Silent Phone Call
May 2015. 40 pp. ISBN-13 978-3--3 (= PSPS 13)
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"These poems may be read as a narrative, rich in persuasive detail, of home and exile, a negotiation between what has
been left behind and what has been attained, or half-attained. The success of the poems, however, lies in their ever-repeated
proposition that if we are framed for such difficult negotiations, we are also framed to discover, through attention to
beauty, to memory and to ourselves, a kind of salvation. In Holborow's poems, no doubt about it, the world can be ugly
as well as beautiful, the self can be grounded in lonelines against the predicaments framed by
narratives of home and exile, she sets, with considerable achieved composure, poems of grace, understanding and compassion."
Theo Dorgan
"The most moving, disarmingly raw early poems in this book concern a leavetaking of dead parents, friends,
ex relationships, of the homeland Wales with its 'hearth of sheep' - and the ensuing exile and alone-ness. Corfu,
which is juxtaposed with Wales throughout, represents a new adventure. There old folk ways are in turn contrasted
with the new world of tourists and planes. Nature itself is a constant with detailed almost painterly descriptions
of its flora and fauna, transfused with classical mythology. A compelling read."
Patricia McCarthy
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Excerpts from After the Silent Phone Call
After the Silent Phone Call
i.m. my parents, Lynn and Dwynwen
After the silent phone call
our daughter dries my tears,
paper lanterns litter our lives.
My son pyramids used teabags.
A wintry sun throws prisms
on the pair of terraria
planted with ivy and African
violets - violence shadows my prison.
Princess purrs to newly-borns
in the shower-tray, despatching me
to wallow in the bath.
A storm swallows the light,
bulls bellow its arrival, ducks
& geese in serried rows
hypnotised by the storm's eye,
grey mare merges into greyness
of fegged rain-soaked field.
Cowering dogs return with nonchalance,
with unconditional love as calm
is restored. I vainly count
days not to be crushed
in the house at the
end of the axle-breaking track.
Walking in walled autumnal gardens,
trees like antlered animals rear
into the sky. Gathering fruit
for wine, sloes for gin,
inebriation sets in. I forage
for mushrooms, the magic ones,
imagination soars, friends, fairy-tale end.
Carelessly, people slip through craquelure
in paintings of imagined lives.
Great clouds plough straight furrows,
confront coffins at open graves.
Lynn's smoking extinguishes his life.
Dwynwen (Welsh goddess of love),
her chocolate heart cracks, flakes
and Fiona is brutally murdered.
(I wish I'd told her
of the solitary snow-drop
that grew on the grave
of the dog she loved.)
Winter Postcards from Corfu
Sunday, and the first rains of Autumn.
A slaking thirst for Wales
which nothing can quench.
Clutched into the past
the words on my father's LPs
catch on fish hooks
in my throat.
I hunger for the cadences
of my language,
long for viridian-rivered valley walks,
but I must knit time,
needles pivotal for motion
like my mother clicked her way
through the threads
of her own threnodies.
On days like this I want to kick
the island from under me like
a suicide kicks the stool.
snuggled between two summers,
submerged beneath blankets and quilts,
as dark clouds bank for rain,
sky, like blue-black ink,
and a storm bellows.
January, a yellow month -
soft light on mainland mountains.
Lemon trees laden with new fruit,
and mimosa racemes raised by breezes
sweep cobwebs from the sky.
A video of the launch at Pontarddulais Library can be viewed on Youtube.
Reviews of After the Silent Phone Call
"These are poems beautifully crafted in an open accessible style with a strong feeling for place but a timelessness as
she explores love and loss. There is a sense of isolation and loneliness in these poems that puts
them under a microscope of close personal experience."
Jim Bennett, Book of the Month, Poetry Kit, August 2015.
"After the Silent Phone Call is vivid and compelling in its interests and both subtle and sensitive in its nuances."
Robert Nisbet, Roundyhouse 45 (Winter 2015).
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Silent Phone Mode
《Silent Phone Mode》是一款Android平台的应用。
Silent Phone Mode应用介绍
A simple Volume Control that supports changing colors and control types.
最近没有更改。
Silent Phone Mode支持版本
Android 2.2以上
清除历史记录关闭&&中关村在线消息：安全一直是用户比较关心的问题，其不仅关系到个人财产安全还关乎个人隐私。近日，Silent&Circle厂商就推出了主打安全的全新升级产品Blackphone&2手机，并已在其官网开启预定。Blackphone&2手机官网界面（图片引自silentcircle官网）&&在配置该机使用了1080P分辨率的屏幕，搭载八核处理器，内置3GB运行内存和32GB本地存储空间，主摄像头为1300万像素，预装基于Android开发的PrivateOS系统。Blackphone&2配置信息（图片引自silentcircle官网）&&该手机开发理念就是保护用户的个人隐私，提高数据加密能力，保证匿名性。手机终端使用P2P技术加密语音及视频通话的应用“SilentPhone”，以及加密邮件的“SilentText”，防止通讯录信息流出的“SilentContacts”等。&&编辑点评：从配置上来看，该机并没有什么能吸引到笔者的地方。不过其PrivatOS系统的安全性还是高出普通ROM不少的。目前该款已在官网开启预售，不过售价还未公布。但是相对前一代产品629美元（约合人民币4023元）的售价，预计Blackphone&2的价格也不会相差太多。
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