Having dipped my toe in Poetry World UK again I starting to get my bearings. Here a online statistics crib that may tell some of the story: Poetry book sales in the UK Source: https://wordsrated.com/poetry-book-sales-statistics/ It not great. The biggest news to me as a 65 year old male is that the demographics of actual…
The Impossibility of Producing a Print Literary Magazine.
A link to this article was shared onine by by Martin Malone former editor of Interpreter’s House which pre Martin I helped survive as a paper edition by creating a basic website.The price of progress is that the magazine now now exists only online. https://theinterpretershouse.org/ The article by Wendy Pratt of SPELT magazine https://speltmagazine.com/ available…
Coppard returns…
Like a bad penny this story never dies and after I had this photograph taken yesterday I thought similar and did some more digging and found two new articles on ‘Flynn’ and for those less squeamish that comes from the saying ‘in like Flynn’ about Errol Flynn’s legendary bedding of women. the full story in…
Desert Dust : Dark Weather
Desert Dust started out as a poem about Spain as part of a sequence originally published in Fire Magazine read here: http://poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record6911-2.html?id=9510 4. BRIDGE OF STONE Five years ago we slid across this bridge at dawnafter a long hot drive from Barcelona.I kept waking up on the back seat to see factoriesflaring orange against the…
The New Country: Dark Weather
Original poem written in 1985 from ‘The New Country’
Drak weather – A Suite for The End of Nature
Experimenting with poetry and sound…. 26 poems related to a damaged ecology 1981-2022 set to some ambient electronic soundscapes. neither fish nor fowl…. Album cover and here first track based on the Crystal Palace fire as seen above. The original poem was written in 1982 one of my earliest. The collection will provide spoken word…
FOSSILS: Dark Weather
The playgrounds were strewn with ashSmoke still billowed from the underpassFurther out in the estuary steam roseFrom the tanker now beached and rusting Lights now only flickered around the estateOn every other day to conserve energyMilk floats converted to run on steamCarried bodies of those who froze Up the icy streets to the crematoriumThe one…
Organ Grinder Reading
My Back Pages
A selection of published and self-published volumes 1992-2022…30 years! I will be reading poems from these various collections tonight at The Organ Grinder with Neil Fulwood. Here my CV 🙂 A NEW YEAR GREETING ****(poem here) Addenda: What I am not. Shaun Belcher is the author of one out of print slim volume that disappeared…
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
After twenty years chez Nottingham I finally been invited to share my thoughts at a reading. So if you wish to listen to a couple of bolshy poets tearing down the walls of heartache now’s your chance… Neil Fulwood been around a bit has some books and generally a good egg…. He will be promoting…