Thursday, March 24, 2011

Seamus Heaney on my favourite pen maker

    I found this poem on the Fountain Pen Network (I really do collect pens but not I'm not a serious collector).

    The Conway Stewart


    "Medium," 14-carat nib,
    Three gold bands in the clip-on screw-top,
    In the mottled barrel a spatulate, thin

    Pump-action lever
    The shopkeeper
    Demonstrated,

    The nib uncapped,
    Treating it to its first deep snorkel
    In a newly opened ink-bottle,

    Guttery, snottery,
    Letting it rest then at an angle
    To ingest,

    Giving us time
    To look together and away
    From our parting, due that evening,

    To my longhand
    "Dear"
    To them, next day.

    The poem appeared in his 2010 collection Human Chain.

    I have never seen a poem about  fountain pen before, let alone one about a Conway Stewart pen.Contributors to the Fountain Pen Network are of the opinion that the pen in question was a model 58...
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