1. The Victor Comic 1966 My step-grandfather was illiterate and had the Victor comic in his farm labourer’s cottage to help him to learn to read..I remember reading it to him when he in his sixties as he puffed clouds of tobacco around my head from his pipe….I was 7. 2.  Ian Allen Combined Locoshed Book…
poetry
Creative Writing M.A. starts Monday…
Well all change or rather back to where I was already…..after a 10 year pause. When I first moved to Nottingham in 2002 I came from a relationship and career (one Spanish the other Oxford University Boldeian Library) that had both broken….and after a disastrous sojourn in London I asked my best friend from school…
45s: The Clash – London Calling
The Clash: London Calling 1979 Bright November evening sweatbox of a venue a sea of heads bobbing below a platform The Clash and Joe Ely in cowboy hat and boots Left later to drizzle and police sirens and a ring of police vans lassooing us Camden Town dirty and ugly best…
Is that all there is 2?
30 years poetry ..it’s all there…..in four volumes Diesel on Gravel – 1981-1989 Landmine – 1990-1995 Farm-hand’s Radio- 1996-1999 The Drifting Village – 2000-2012
Farm-Hand’s Radio – Poems Self Published? It’s a flood….
FARM-HAND’S RADIO 1996-1999 https://shaunbelcher.com/writing/?page_id=117 apologies for formatting but you’ll have to buy a book to get that perfectly 🙂 THE DRIFTING VILLAGE 2000- present https://shaunbelcher.com/writing/?page_id=115 To resurrect my very dormant poetry career I have decided to ‘unlock’ a book of poetry which I completed in 1999 and collects poems from 1996 when I returned from…
Crawling from the wreckage…
I have just re-read the post below which was written the week before my mother’s funeral. She had Carcinoid Cancer which was diagnosed in 2005 the year after my father died of Pancreatic Cancer which he was diagnosed with in 2002. My sister and I therefore have been dealing with cancer and its personal…
Is that all there is?
Doing a slow revamp of website I finally get to ‘writing’. I started this blog for ‘poetry’ in 2007 at the same time as I began working at Nottingham Trent University in the multimedia department. Then I expected to only be there a year or two at most or at least until the recession ‘over’….
Salt Modern Voices Tour Autumn 2011
http://saltmodernvoices.wordpress.com/readings/ Readings Salt Modern Voices: Oxford. Shaun Belcher,  Mark Burnhope, Emily Hasler and Claire Trevien read at the Albion Beatnik Bookshop on 24 October 2011. Salt Modern Voices: London. A two-part event on 14 and 28 November 2011 at The Compass: 14th November: Shaun Belcher, Adrian Slatcher, Lee Smith, and JT Welsch 28th November: Mark Burnhope, Emily…
Salt Modern Voices readings and website
Salt Modern Voices –U.K. Tour As one of the current crop of Salt Modern Voices pamphleteers I am engaged in helping to organise a series of UK wide readings this autumn and on into next year. So far there are definite dates in London ( Compass Islington ) Warwick,  Manchester and hopefully more to follow…
Dead North
Dead North M1 7 p.m. Braided like D.N.A. we flicker in a northbound lane twined like flax woven with fertilizer lorries, flat-loads tankers and porta-kabins under digitised words ‘salt spreading’ Capital’s crawling artery bunged northward creeps each vein full of despatch tall orders, whims and haste precision marketing targets the next truck reads REALITY: realitygroup.com…