#peter mayer

Bob Cobbing & Writers Forum, Edited by Peter Mayer, «Ceolfrith» 26, Ceolfrith Press, Sunderland, 1974 [room 3o2 books, Ottawa]

Peter Mayer, singing “The Longest Night”

Light a candle, sing a song Say that the shadows shall not cross Make an oblation out of all you’ve lost In the longest night

Gather friends and cast your hopes Into the fire as it snows And stare at God through the dark windows Of the longest night Of the year

{Refrain} A night that seems like a lifetime If you’re waiting for the sun So why not sing to the nighttime And the burning stars up above?

Come with drums, bells and horns Or come in silence, come forlorn Come like a miner to the door Of the longest night

For deep in the stillness, deep in the cold Deep in the darkness, a miner knows That there is a diamond in the soul Of the longest night Of the year

{Refrain}

Concerning Concrete Poetry, Edited by Bob Cobbing and Peter Mayer, Writers Forum, London, September 1978 [issued as Studies In Concrete Poetry 3] [room 3o2 books, Ottawa]

Peter Bela Mayer

Peter Bela Mayer