Peasant Tower is a book-length poem by the UK poet Tim Allen. Riding
along on the top deck, its 275 couplets have a range of sound like this:
// film director stands out in swarm of snappers / litter on radar
skittles behind vehicle // skis clutter up left luggage / get your
tongue around the yawn of an afternoon prayer // bums and faces but no
overheads / stories in which young men's wallets are cuckoo clocks //
incinerator in church cellar / a bird with eleven feet gets accepted by
the establishment // messing around with an extraction fan / emasculated
by a dowsing stick // subeditor crosses out coincidences in crossword /
e.g. bus shelter in cathedral crypt // gull on its tod on refuse tip
reads scorched love letter / vintage carnival route empty of the peanut
// she stands back-to-front before a lost child / motorcycle sidecar
carrying a demolished block of flats //
