#unexhaustedtime

[emilyvberry]

interview in Tank Magazine

[robinallender]

I really enjoyed Emily Berry’s collection of poems Unexhausted Time, particularly ‘Ghosts (Homage to Burial)’, which is made up entirely of quotations from a Burial interview with Mark Fisher. I couldn’t find a decent image of the cover online so here is a photo of some moonbeams peeking through the curtains onto the bedroom ceiling. Anyway, this is a prose poem from Unexhausted Time called ‘Street’:

Walking along the street one afternoon I found myself abreast of another pedestrian who, for whatever reasons, perhaps the same as my own, could not bring themselves to generate a surge in pace sufficient to overtake me. So we continued in that way for some time, almost companionably, and when at last something did compel them to break away I felt a pact had been torn and I knew once and for all that my worst fears were true: I was all alone in the world and no one could save me.