Four Pump Poems Programme your sat-nav to lead you astray, lose yourself in the landscape and divert your day. Wind down in the valley on lanes steep and narrow, decelerate today, slow into tomorrow. Park your cares in a lay-by just sit still and stare, be absorbed by the mountains you’ve no business there. Switch off by the lakeside let reflections lift your mood, silence all the bad news and re-tune to solitude.
by Noel Connor
09/10/08 ‘Refuel’ A poetic intervention created by Noel Connor for the annual FRED site-specific Arts Festival. For a fortnight in the autumn, (27th September - 11th October.) Noel Connor will transform a small petrol station in Cumbria into a poetry station. Poems will be emblazoned across the pumps, inviting passing travellers to reflect on their journey through the Lake District. The poems will refuel the imagination and offer a pause for poetry on the forecourt. Venue: Pitstop Petrol Station, Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria. Tickets: FREE Contact: Noel Connor Telephone: 01782 511979 Email: noelconnor@yahoo.co.uk Website: www.fredsblog.co.uk