Corrie - memorial poem.

[thegirlwiththemouseyhair]

Just read that the lovely poem that Ken Barlow read at Ashley's memorial carol service was specially written for the show by Carol Ann Duffy.
How fab is that?
(And exactly the sort of thing our Poet Laureate should be doing.... )

Love Carol Ann Duffy.

The poem in full:

?If someone could direct me to a street where I could stand, cobbles beneath my feet tearful with rain; the shadows of my hopes behind the stained- glass windows of a pub, ghosts ? I would turn up the collar of my coat, walk, number each small, terraced house by heart: birthplace; neighbours ? hardman, hussy, haridan, hustler, hero, heroine ? threshold, bride and groom as clueless of next year as Christmas Eve; or exit-place, a hearse, a raw and local grief...then I'd retrace my steps, perhaps a baby's cry sharp as a sudden star nailed to the sky, to stand now in this backstreet bar, nursing a beer, all my griefs, my gifts, and glad I live here.?

Thanks purepurple
It is LOVELY

Thats fantastic.

Its mush more "for the nation" than royal occasion poems I think.

And the poem is just fantastic.

I thought the poem was brilliant and I wondered if it had been written for the show or if some clever researcher had found it - but I completely forgot about it. Thanks for sharing :)

Oh wow, that is special. It really is lovely.