That moment when you’ve gone off to take one photograph and realise it is dusk, you are in a tumble down industrial area amongst broken glass and iron rods half exposed from crumbling concrete. You have £100 odd worth of camera around your neck, you’ve left your phone in the car along with you husband […]
Video of me performing political stuff including a protest song! Sound quality is naff sorry about that!
Today is the International Day Against Homophobia – I was already working on this poem in light of all the gay marriage stuff going around. I wish I could have included more people in the poem but it was becoming unwieldy. For Those For those who would deny the Homosexual marriage Let all endevours of […]
Last weekend was not only full of lots of lovely poetry events but I found out that I have won a bronze medal in the Gloucestershire Creative Olympics for my song Windy Gloucestershire 🙂 So I shall be going off to a lovely looking event at the end of April. Then on Sunday I managed […]
So tomorrow I am going to Oxford to read at The Not The Oxford Literary Festival, here is the Facebook events page. I have been working on a collection called Political Converse and the theme for the reading is Socio-Politics-Protest in literature so I will be reading poems from that such as Recipe For Riot […]
I was just going to post the science poems I’d written this month but then I read these news articals: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/nov/16/young-jobseekers-work-pay-unemployment http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/feb/18/tesco-branch-hit-pay-protest http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/16/disabled-unpaid-work-benefit-cuts?newsfeed=true No Wage Slave Bayed go down the commercial drain Human rights u-bend Send wraith of pain Terminally ill aint catching Government snatching Chiold’s under the poverty line Finned for not being on […]
This is a WoPoWriMo poem from one of Ella Gales fantastic pictures. Dark Geometry The noose is the shape of a section through a cone that bisects the apex The Bomber cuts a black triangle through the air The gas mask is a cacophony of curves, a new topography for the face The tank is […]