In The Cinema

Your whispered

words silently

replay themselves -

don't tell me how it ends

don't spoil it for me.

In The Cinema

IN THE CINEMA is in itself a private picture house, a careful framing of moments. In this collection Stephen Bone often undertakes a microscopic procedure, holding objects in certain lights, running films at specific speeds, cutting at definite moments... finding reflections in the gaps, the dark between the scenes. Tom Crompton

The poet picks out every detail almost like an archaeologist, with care, precision and wonderment... and the poignancy of the images stayed with me for a long time after I had closed the book. Robin Houghton

...the care in the description of objects is a characteristic of good writing, but there is something especially charged about this technique in IN THE CINEMA; noticing objects as a displacement from something disturbing or how anxiety makes us map subjective anxieties onto external objects. Peter Kenny

Stephen Bone was educated at the Arts Educational Trust in London and has since worked in television, theatre and radio. Working for some years for Radio Four.