'The Infinite Flood' by George Neame OP

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George Neame, Old Portmuthian and a founding editor of Portsmouth Point blog, has published a pamphlet, The Infinite Flood, which explores the vastness of space through the unremarkable details of modern life: lasagne sheets stretch out like layers of time, snooker balls roll into constellations, an astronaut's fingerprints are left in frost on a postbox. 

The Infinite Flood is full of warm and inviting poems which subtly evoke important questions about our place in the universe, written with stellar lyricism and attention to the melody of language.  

In the video below, filmed at the book launch, George reads from his collection. 

Copies of George's poetry are available to purchase, and you can borrow copy from the PGS Library. Click here, for more information on 'The Infinite Flood'



 

friday night at the starlight inn

 

you men turned the snooker table into 

ground control as you strategized over 

every angle of theoretical geometric shapes.

 

on the table next to yours, I commanded the 

striped and spotted balls into the outline of Orion, 

and the cue became my telescope to search

the outer reaches of the cloth for black holes.

 

“the universe and its contents” was the name

of your university module, but for a moment your

universe shrank to the size of that pub’s back room

and I flickered like the most distant of its contents.


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