Alexandra Ewing
Alexandra is an actor, movement director and artist based in Bury St. Edmunds. She was born into pubs, in which she lived for all her childhood and the experience still frames her life, influenced by the generosity of spirit shown by her publican parents. Alexandra graduated from Guildford School of Acting in 2018 and moved back to her home county to work with Suffolk theatre makers such as tusk., The Keeper’s Daughter and INK. Alexandra began forming poetry in late 2019 after creating her first piece for the stage, ‘Impatience,’ a ballet-with-words.
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The Public House Rumbles
By Alexandra Ewing
We hear it before we arrive
At the door you hold open like a beating heart
Voices upon chinks and clinks and sloshes and swills and bawling, singing sounds
Conducted by you
A rumble
Through the floorboards, within the walls, we feel your industry
The weaving of art and intuition with which you
Serve
Welcome
Embrace a world-sized room
With a rumble
Patience is poured
And joy rolled, tapped, lightly on the tongue fizzing with Coca-Cola from the gun and
So many stories, memory eddying in the air
Lifted in the rumble
Glinting against glasses you carry in shatter-less towers
Fuelled by barrels of generosity and curiosity
It smells like beer and smoke and cheese and cheer
And crinkles the way packets of crisps
Are shared between staff and strangers when the movement shifts
This rumble
Brave as whiskey
Bold as brass
A laugh like a bell
And a warmth unmatched, built hearth upon hearth
Your house rumbles
A hum, steady and strong
Brewed, stoppered, popped with applause
That heart open with song
Worn on your sleeve next to a hand all can grasp
Beating in rhythm to your rumble.
