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| Type | Title | Author | Replies | Last updated |
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| Story | Luton Revisited (After John Hegley) | ralph | 0 | 1 week 22 hours ago |
| Story | Arrowhead (final edit) | ralph | 2 | 1 month 22 hours ago |
| Story | Ascensions | ralph | 3 | 1 month 2 days ago |
| Story | Arrowhead | ralph | 3 | 1 month 2 days ago |
| Forum topic | ACT! A Poem for Basildon | ralph | 3 | 1 month 1 week ago |
| Story | Act! A Poem for Basildon | ralph | 10 | 2 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Moon Over Armley | ralph | 4 | 3 months 1 day ago |
| Story | The Darlings | ralph | 1 | 3 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Daddy Long Legs | ralph | 1 | 3 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Record | ralph | 3 | 6 months 3 days ago |
| Story | Geese | ralph | 11 | 6 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Tide | ralph | 4 | 6 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Raymond | ralph | 3 | 7 months 2 hours ago |
| Story | Jumping Trains | ralph | 6 | 10 months 1 day ago |
| Story | House | ralph | 2 | 11 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Shame | ralph | 8 | 1 year 3 weeks ago |
| Story | There is Still Time | ralph | 4 | 1 year 1 month ago |
| Story | Friday Night was Biscuit Night | ralph | 1 | 1 year 2 months ago |
| Story | When I Was Flush | ralph | 0 | 1 year 2 months ago |
| Forum topic | Northern Gravy Live at Home with Toria Garbutt and Roy | ralph | 0 | 1 year 2 months ago |
| Story | Any Old Jerusalem | ralph | 10 | 1 year 2 months ago |
| Story | Friday Night at Zhivago’s | ralph | 0 | 1 year 2 months ago |
| Story | Brass | ralph | 2 | 1 year 2 months ago |
| Story | The January Rebellion | ralph | 1 | 1 year 2 months ago |
| Story | Hope Revisited | ralph | 2 | 1 year 3 months ago |
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Luton Revisited (After John Hegley)
Many years ago, John Hegley wrote a seismic political poem about class and mobility for his home town of Luton. It still shocks today. You can hear...
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Arrowhead (final edit)
Arrowhead (final edit) Burnley late. Serrated spring showers twist in from the west. A Bradford train delayed as I wait — curating my minutes of...
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Arrowhead
Arrowhead Burnley late. Serrated spring showers twist in from the west. A Bradford train delayed as I wait — curating my minutes of sorrow. Earlier...
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Ascensions
Ascensions No finger on it. The colour, the grey area i nsipid in other circumstances. Here, the light glows as if a search. A treasure sunk — swept...
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Moon Over Armley
Moon Over Armley An angry cloud converses with the lunar. The sixpence sphere will always rise above. In Armley prison darkness arrives sooner. A...
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Notes on the poem
Posted on Thu, 30 Mar 2023
Thank you so much for your kind words about this poem.
Read full commentThe poem was written over an extended period of time and was the start of a deep personal change for me. It’s complicated. The poem was due to be an international commission...
Posted in Shame
No
Posted on Sat, 28 Oct 2023
No.
He is saying sorry for his crimes. I work in prisons teaching serious offenders creative writing.
Thanks
Ralph
Read full commentPosted in Record
Thank you!
Posted on Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Thank you, means a lot. I read this tonight at an event in Bradford.
Read full commentPosted in Geese
Excellent. I'll definitely
Posted on Mon, 14 Oct 2019
Excellent. I'll definitely come. Thank you. I'll email ABCTales.
Read full commentPosted in Serotonin Rag
I think Hank would have liked
Posted on Tue, 15 Apr 2014
I think Hank would have liked that...
Read full commentPosted in Shut Your Mouth Bukowski!