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- Photofit
- Let (video)
- Strangers
- Mentalist (video and free download)
- Finals!
- Narwhals (new poem)
- Hungerford Bridge (video)
- Let (new poem)
- Hungerford Bridge
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- We Were Making Fairytales
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Category Archives: poetry
together alone (together) ()
276.314 kilometres from the postbox on your street is a room where i imagine you watching marina abramovic folding and unfolding opalescent bodies into the envelope of a fireplace. as the crow flies. by road my endless iterations of attempted … Continue reading
Murder Begins
Murder does not begin with piles of glasses, Gases, gates and railway tracks Or the clack clack clack of a million boots in tune Or the phosphorous perfume of the jagged ack ack ack The weapons stash Or lives mown … Continue reading
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Fucking Juliette Binoche
You should be at a poetry slam but you’re not. You couldn’t face another night of polite smiles and 8.5s, Drinking cider getting beaten by oneliners From a guy who lacks a basic grip of irony Who thinks misquoting Kerouac’s … Continue reading
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Christmas Time
This is the season of the dying and the dead The poorly fed and those that life misled, Of keening dread and unheard screaming in their head And suicide notes that go unread This is the season of the dying … Continue reading
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Let (video)
I have been somewhat sporadically online the past week or so and will be the next week or so. My mum died last Monday after a long illness. The following day, I gave what will be my only performance for … Continue reading
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Strangers
Here’s something I wrote in London yesterday. It’s another London poem, with an Olympic twist and my best Ferlinghetti hat on
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Mentalist (video and free download)
Because it doesn’t feel right to make a poem with such an important social message part of a collection I’m charging for (and because it doesn’t really fit the reflective tone of that collection), Mentalist is not part of the … Continue reading
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Narwhals (new poem)
(I have a Facebook page here) Hmm, Adam Kammerling won the national Hammer and Tongue final with a poem about the state of poetry so I thought I’d see if I could try my own “this is why I write … Continue reading
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Hungerford Bridge (video)
I have a Facebook page here – for updates and news and stuff Recorded at the great event ARTournament, held on the first Sunday of the month at the New Inn, Gloucester
Let (new poem)
Let me go Down below Where the future hangs low Like a black moon throwing blacker shadows over bloodied snow Where our slideshow Slowly winds towards today Let me replay the moments when you prayed Let me go Let me … Continue reading
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