Yes I finally have a solo publication as a poet. Not bad after 25 years of writing. It is due to be released soon and you can pre-order from Amazon and Asda (links below). My thanks to Chris Hamilton Emery and Salt for picking up on the poems. I am really chuffed that I am…
Month: August 2010
Landlocked
LANDLOCKED Tied to a flat land Of reclaimed pits and winding river The railway has gone Coal blackened tracks have grown over Every wind caresses its absence The silent factories know their part But cannot speak, chains hold fast Beyond pale gates and security huts Poppies and cow parsley, ragwort and buddleia A necklace of flowers…
The Shipstone Star
THE SHIPSTONE STAR Red lead rain lashed to pink hangs like a soviet star on the left side of Nottingham’s tunic. Always east facing, a towering symbol. The dawn of a century personified, rusts above a city of casual workers, bicycles and the hard slogging dutiful dead who fleck fields from the Rhone to the…