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 […]
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 […]