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| Story | Safe Home | ralph | 18 | 3 days 6 hours ago |
| Story | Freda Payne | ralph | 0 | 5 days 6 hours ago |
| Story | The Editor | ralph | 4 | 3 weeks 5 days ago |
| Forum topic | Walthamstow Reading 24th July | ralph | 0 | 2 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Alfredos: After Michael Donaghy’s ‘Shibboleth’ | ralph | 4 | 3 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Less | ralph | 2 | 6 months 1 week ago |
| Story | The Gifting | ralph | 1 | 6 months 2 weeks ago |
| Forum topic | Mark Hollis film | ralph | 0 | 6 months 3 weeks ago |
| Blog entry | House Anthems by Ralph Dartford, a Review by Ewan Lawrie | insertponceyfre... | 2 | 7 months 1 week ago |
| Forum topic | House Anthems Hardback special offer | ralph | 0 | 7 months 4 weeks ago |
| Story | Anthem | celticman | 23 | 8 months 6 days ago |
| Forum topic | Ralph Dartford at the Betsy Trotswood, London. 11th January | ralph | 1 | 9 months 2 days ago |
| Story | Old Nights | ralph | 11 | 9 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | On December Nights in 1973 | ralph | 4 | 10 months 1 day ago |
| Story | Jimmy | ralph | 2 | 10 months 5 days ago |
| Forum topic | House Anthems online launch tonight - Free! | ralph | 1 | 10 months 4 weeks ago |
| Forum topic | House Anthems online launch tonight - Free! | ralph | 0 | 10 months 4 weeks ago |
| Forum topic | Jumping Trains | ralph | 0 | 1 year 2 months ago |
| Forum topic | House Anthems. A new book | ralph | 0 | 1 year 4 months ago |
| Story | Luton Revisited (After John Hegley) | ralph | 0 | 1 year 5 months ago |
| Story | Ascensions | ralph | 3 | 1 year 6 months ago |
| Forum topic | ACT! A Poem for Basildon | ralph | 3 | 1 year 6 months ago |
| Story | Act! A Poem for Basildon | ralph | 9 | 1 year 8 months ago |
| Story | Moon Over Armley | ralph | 4 | 1 year 8 months ago |
| Story | The Darlings | ralph | 1 | 1 year 9 months ago |
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Freda Payne
Freda Payne Please return home and put your rings back on! Because the magpies above are swooping. They could peck the trinkets of our future. The...
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Safe Home
Safe Home I’ll protect you from the hooded claw Keep the vampires from your door. When the chips are down I’ll be around with my undying Death-...
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The Editor
The Editor You will haiku the fauna of Haworth. Burn Tehran ballads for those who can’t breathe. Delete a sonnet of limbs rotting in Gaza. Cherish...
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Alfredos: After Michael Donaghy’s ‘Shibboleth’
Alfredos After Michael Donaghy’s ‘Shibboleth’ Vacationers at Tahoe windows. The morning sky painted by seven year old boys wild on their birthdays...
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Less
Less Flee the womb! Bloody, flawless. The cough of breath, the catch of life. Pissed up husband, exhausted wife. Neither here or there. Never more...
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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
Hijacked
Posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2025
Looks like my poem has been hijacked on this thread. Which is a shame. Oh well.
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Excellent and restrained.
Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2025
Excellent and restrained.
Read full commentPosted in Anthem
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.
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Excellent. I'll definitely
Posted on Mon, 14 Oct 2019
Excellent. I'll definitely come. Thank you. I'll email ABCTales.
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I think Hank would have liked
Posted on Tue, 15 Apr 2014
I think Hank would have liked that...
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