A teenage Doris Sydenham can’t understand why her mother keeps having children. Hannah Chetham from Wythenshawe Writers Group remembers the outdoor market.  Joan Batchelor describes life on the factory line as ‘an automaton dressed in flesh’. Kevin Otoo lends us a bit of perspective:

Perspectives

Addicts would inject themselves beneath this wall:
Dogs would urinate into its shadows

After dark —
when the old clock in the cathedral tower
had offered us the midnight —
I too would walk beneath this wall,
Like a criminal returning
To the scene of a crime:
And reflect upon my arms
And ruminate upon my wrists
And laugh, and cry,
And bring my life into perspective.

Kevin Otoo

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Publication date: 1980