The Belt Room

by Glenn Telfer

Overview

A collection of poems inspired by a Scottish education in the ‘60’s.

1982: Time, Gentlemen, please. There will be no more belting of children. From now on they will be belting us!

The Glasgow poet considers the belting days. And in particular the connection between academic improvement and thrashing the living daylights out of children. He is well qualified to comment, having received well over 1000 rounds in his fairly average school career. (Think of a Vickers machine gun on a tripod and 4 boxes of ammo).

The final record of a pedagogic technique whose recipients are on life’s home run.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045817981
Publisher:	Glenn Telfer
Publication date:	04/07/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	713 KB

About the Author

I am now almost fully grown, being born in 1956 in working-class Glasgow, Scotland (from Kinning Park, Dennistoun and Ibrox, if you’re asking). The hammer and tongs, coal-powered world I grew up in is as gone as Troy, and with it the industrial working class that served it. What seemed so solid and forever, disappeared almost overnight and is rapidly becoming unknowable except through people like me. The hasty departure of a way of life and its replacement by globalized uncertainty is both the background to my life and the raw material of my art. Considering what’s gone, what’s here, what’s yet to come is what I’m about; itemising the bill of this life through my writing. Other poets have explored this too, but none are as like the poet as he is himself. This is my special qualification.Imagine being able to write a book? Even when I was a wee boy throwing stones and playing street football I wanted to be a writer. And all the while I thought I was living my life backwards and sideways I was actually tracing a Celtic knotwork to here. Whatever the reason for this want, this writing may be the cure. May be is also maybe not.