The turmoil, the pain The trials to fill in that form again All your energy All your time Don’t you know being ill’s a crime? Too ill to work No one wants the lame But fit for work Hide your face in shame And when the humiliation is done When ATOS and the government have […]
I gag Chocking down bitter pills Of make things better By a sweep under the rug What the public don’t know Wont hurt them Protesters hurt As do charity pleas It is for my own good Why can’t we see Protected Lock it down No room for the free Unpredictable No room in the new […]
Take one apathetic, peaceful, book-loving student body intent on learning Tenderise with cuts and broken promises Optionally add agent provocateur/thug type – this speeds the reaction but is not necessary due to using the kettling technique – guaranteed to bring anyone to a slow violent boil Sprinkle in a portion of police – ill-equipped and […]
The NHS is in distress As politicians make it an even bigger mess Sneaking in private sector competition Erosion of the health service is their mission Drs who say, ‘hang on a mo!’ Are told they will have to go Such cost cutting measures Will kill this most auspicous of national treasures Lets hope the […]
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 […]