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Poem: Civic Pride
June 27, 2020 - No comment
Look! There it is, your civic pride back from putting an X in a right wing box, back from egging on a bigot down the ‘Spoons, back...
June 27, 2020 - No comment
Look! There it is, your civic pride back from putting an X in a right wing box, back from egging on a bigot down the ‘Spoons, back...
Poem: Grenfell Tower’s 24 Floors
June 14, 2020 - No comment
The poem’s 24 equal-length lines represent the 24 floors of Grenfell Tower. It is written in memory of all who died three...
June 14, 2020 - No comment
The poem’s 24 equal-length lines represent the 24 floors of Grenfell Tower. It is written in memory of all who died three...
Poem: Lockdown Sestina
May 25, 2020 - No comment
Normality has come to an impasse. The world shrinks to a small web of streets, everyday life to these four walls. Everything beyond...
May 25, 2020 - No comment
Normality has come to an impasse. The world shrinks to a small web of streets, everyday life to these four walls. Everything beyond...
Poem: The After Life
May 9, 2020 - No comment
After the sizzle and spit of my flesh going up like bacon thrown on eight hundred degrees centigrade, when my bones have...
May 9, 2020 - No comment
After the sizzle and spit of my flesh going up like bacon thrown on eight hundred degrees centigrade, when my bones have...
Poem: Normal
March 26, 2020 - No comment
I wouldn’t have you back. With your nice houses and good schools on the better side of wherever. You installed (or tried...
March 26, 2020 - No comment
I wouldn’t have you back. With your nice houses and good schools on the better side of wherever. You installed (or tried...
Poem: The First Dissident
February 27, 2020 - No comment
The Commissars yet to be assigned their desks; you pick today to text: “What have the revolutionaries ever done for...
February 27, 2020 - No comment
The Commissars yet to be assigned their desks; you pick today to text: “What have the revolutionaries ever done for...
Poem: What They Don’t Know Is
January 4, 2020 - No comment
after Dennis O’Driscoll That this cannot be avoided by everyone wearing protective glasses. That the contents of their...
January 4, 2020 - No comment
after Dennis O’Driscoll That this cannot be avoided by everyone wearing protective glasses. That the contents of their...
Poem: Past
December 7, 2019 - No comment
Kevin Higgins joins the Labour Party campaign for marginal seats in memory of James Introduction In 'Past'...
December 7, 2019 - No comment
Kevin Higgins joins the Labour Party campaign for marginal seats in memory of James Introduction In 'Past'...
Poem: The Universal Moderate
November 23, 2019 - No comment
after Buffy Sainte-Marie Over wishy-washy tea in the office canteen, or when you’re condemned to sit beside him at...
November 23, 2019 - No comment
after Buffy Sainte-Marie Over wishy-washy tea in the office canteen, or when you’re condemned to sit beside him at...
Poem: Febrile
September 30, 2019 - No comment
“I am the Empire in the last of its decline.” Paul Verlaine I am Britain in the final orgasm of its fall, that watches...
September 30, 2019 - No comment
“I am the Empire in the last of its decline.” Paul Verlaine I am Britain in the final orgasm of its fall, that watches...
