Biscuits

Today Rod Bugg's 'biscuits' have appeared in Looms Lane, celebrating the plasticity of clay. The poem is by Sue Burge. 

ship’s biscuits
     
hard tack   each one
     teardrop stamped
weevil ridden survivors
     of shipwreck and mutiny
 
how sailors would have loved
     to discover honey
locked in these bonehard rusks
     thick unexpected slick
their rolling dreams sweetened
with the buzzing of an English summer
 
Sue Burge
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Rodd Bugg is a sculptor who works primarily in clay and drawing. He has been represented by Galerie de Witte Voet, Amsterdam for many years, showing in June 2017 in 4 British Artists with Martin Smith, Ken Eastman and Clare Twomey and was featured in the RAW Art Fair in 2014 and the forty years anniversary show in January 2015. In 2013 he had six pieces of work in the Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries and won the Humphreys Purchase Prize. In 2014 he had a solo exhibition at North House Gallery in Manningtree, Essex. 

Sue Burge is a freelance mentor, creative writing and film studies tutor based in North Norfolk. Her first poetry collection In the Kingdom of Shadows (Live Canon) and debut pamphlet Lumière (Hedgehog Poetry Press) were published in 2018. www.sueburge.uk