Jem Rolls

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Scottish Poetry Library Podcast · From the Archive: Jem Rolls. January 2015 · 21 Dec 2025 podcast

It would bring the savage misanthrope out in both Christ and Gandhi.

It's a holiday in other people's misery, surrounded by a sleepy flock of indysmalated all-nation sheep.

This is like suffering for the sake of suffering, so I've something to complain about.

Which also sounds a suspiciously English trait, though I bet it's universal.

I was watching the lozenges.

That is, myself moved slowly, as one of many, on a slow conveyor belt.

But now I'm watching myself watch the lozenges.

that is myself move slowly as one of many on a slow conveyor belt the squash fly flapping the last leaf of autumn the odourless decomposition is this how the universe ends not with a bang but with the fading memory of a barely heard far away whimper

So, very appropriate in this town, which makes a substantial amount of living from tourism.

Well, I've always been good at machine-gunning myself from young feet, you know.

Let's just make it as hard as possible to make a living, and then make one.

Yeah, so, well, it's just a thing, you know, basically you can write anywhere, and I think the other thing is you can write anywhere, so I've written things in thousands of internet cafes,

But I'm basically, I'm nailed to the trend across Canada, from Montreal to Vancouver, from June to September.

But they're theatre festivals.

So, you know, for a long time, I was the only poet.

And now there's a few more that have done it.

They're only Rob G's, really.

But yes, it's a great bunch of people, you know, it's a bunch of clowns, a bunch of monologuists, a bunch of straight theatre, wild theatre, dancers, musicians.

And it's a really, really great gang.

They're kind of mildly Canadian, but they are from all over.

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