I will be offering this as a free download from this evening as it Bastille day.GRASS CLOUDS contains everything I have written as ‘poetry’ since I arrived in Nottingham in 2002 so about 20 years worth Contains 80 poems and some illustrations. I will be reading from it on Tuesday August 2nd at the Organ…
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Burning Books : where did it all come from…
Having self-published the latest pamphlet in an intentionally ongoing series ( I aim to publish a ’round-up’ pamphlet twice a year from now on) here some author’s notes on the poems. The latest is ‘Burning Books’ Horseshoe Press Pamphlet No. 2 and I thought I’d try and describe what influenced the poems and…
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…
45s : Working on a building of love
A series of poems inspired by vinyl singles…..I started years ago and only done two so far so here they are…maybe I get inspired to do more 🙂 This about my Nan Butler’s front room.. a broken piano, boxes and boxes of ‘damaged Smith’s Crisps’ (My Gramp delivered most of them rest ended up there)…and…