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…
Lost Nottingham
Lost Nottingham: Paper Boats on Private Road
PAPER BOATS ON PRIVATE ROAD A lone slim figure in Sunday best gets off the tram on Woodborough Road, Hesitates then proceeds down Private Road until it dog-legs east at his destination As he turns along the high brick wall he hears children’s laughter, a maid calling He stands at the gate hidden by trees and calls, the maid comes to…
Lost Nottingham: Picasso’s Peace Train
PICASSO’S PEACE TRAIN The black clouds had been building up all week Thunder rolling down from the Peaks on Nottingham, Grey drizzle trickling from the glass roof at Marylebone Station Dripped on to Pablo Picasso’s neck as he boarded the train to Sheffield Monday 13th November 1950 early morning the train’s steam billowed Through…
Lost Nottingham: Charlie and the Lace Factory
CHARLIE AND THE LACE FACTORY Monday 4th May 1904, Grand Theatre Radford Road, Hyson Green Evening performance of Sherlock Holmes over, Charles Chaplin aged 15 Collar askew from a swift costume change leaves Billie the page boy behind And cheekily slaps the final drop curtain just below King Charles head The sun-light overhead…