Poems should be unique works of art and expresses the ineffable in a manner that speaks…
Paul Tobin
THREE STORIES HIGH
Still at a loss to work out what went wrong with the last post. Here’s the poem.…
HIT MAN
Another revised poem. Thanks again to The Secret Poets for their invaluable assistance. You can read…
NOW EVEN THE BUS COMPANY HAS GONE BANKRUPT
Today is the day we seal our fate, celebrate our new insular island mentality, and revel…
AN AFTER THOUGHT ADDED
Thanks yet again to the Secret Poets for helping me sort this poem into some sort of…
STAR SMASHERS of the UNIVERSE
A great title for this post.Very unpoetry.Very genre.Very pulp. I talk a lot about how poems…
FEAST ON THE LEFT OVERS
A recent poem I have been working on this week. Essentially it is a description of…
ONE AGAINST THE CLOCK MORNING SCRAMBLE
A poem about being connected, about how every action provokes another.The poem became clearer as I…
NO LAUGHING MATTER
The title of the post could as easily refer to the result of yesterday’s General Election.…
INTO THE RAIN AND THE TWILIGHT
Last weekend I was in France for a brief weekend away. There is something about being…
HE SLEEPS IN YOUR MEMORY
The photographs don’t match the poem. Here is one of the cats I share a house…
NOW I WONDER IF IT DID
I have been trying different layouts for this poem. It essentially is a monologue and I…
A WRINKLE IN SPACE/TIME
A poem inspired by the workshop I ran at Tropical Pressure. The workshop focused on finding…
AS ACCURATE AS SCIENTIFIC METHOD
A poem that just appeared in my head one morning. It was about a week after…
ONE IMPLACABLE MACHINE OF COLD FORCE
This post a poem about urban renewal. It is based on an old, large house…
BOUNCE OFF THE MAGPIE
The farce continues. The crime minister and his puppet master are still trying to convince us…
A MARKER FOR OUR FUTURE
Sadly this week we are not the only country washing our dirty political linen in the street.…
AN INFINITY OF DIFFERENT VERSIONS
I am going to see Kathryn Williams this evening in Bristol and frankly I can’t wait.…
ON THE NIGHT OF THE FIRE
The shameless crime minister after being told his proroguing of Parliament was unlawful now claims that…
BETWEEN THUNDER AND THE ECHO
I have just discovered this is my 500th post. I don’t normally take note of such…
BUT FOR THE WAY THE LIGHT FALLS
copyright David Hockney The country continues to be torn apart by a gang of public school…
THE SILENCE OF THE GREAT EXTINCTION
I woke up on Thursday morning feeling that I was living in the final chapter of Christopher…
WATCH THE TOWN CONTRACT
I spend a very enjoyable afternoon this week picnicking with the Secret Poets on Babacombe Downs.…