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| Story | Tramps Like Us | ralph | 3 | 1 week 1 day ago |
| Story | Our Little Secrets | ralph | 1 | 2 weeks 5 days ago |
| Story | Blackpool | ralph | 1 | 2 months 3 days ago |
| Story | Fighting Pirates | ralph | 0 | 2 months 4 weeks ago |
| Story | Uncoupling | ralph | 4 | 3 months 3 days ago |
| Story | Darlings | ralph | 0 | 3 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Apeirogon | ralph | 6 | 5 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Bows | ralph | 2 | 6 months 1 day ago |
| Story | A Steady Carry On | ralph | 8 | 6 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Coffee Shop Fade Out | ralph | 4 | 6 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Absenses | ralph | 5 | 6 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Scarborough | ralph | 2 | 7 months 4 days ago |
| Story | Radio, Radio | ralph | 3 | 1 year 2 days ago |
| Story | Safe Home | ralph | 18 | 1 year 5 days ago |
| Story | Freda Payne | ralph | 0 | 1 year 1 week ago |
| Story | The Editor | ralph | 4 | 1 year 4 weeks ago |
| Forum topic | Walthamstow Reading 24th July | ralph | 0 | 1 year 2 months ago |
| Story | Alfredos: After Michael Donaghy’s ‘Shibboleth’ | ralph | 4 | 1 year 3 months ago |
| Story | Less | ralph | 2 | 1 year 6 months ago |
| Story | The Gifting | ralph | 1 | 1 year 6 months ago |
| Forum topic | Mark Hollis film | ralph | 0 | 1 year 6 months ago |
| Blog entry | House Anthems by Ralph Dartford, a Review by Ewan Lawrie | insertponceyfre... | 2 | 1 year 7 months ago |
| Forum topic | House Anthems Hardback special offer | ralph | 0 | 1 year 8 months ago |
| Story | Anthem | celticman | 23 | 1 year 8 months ago |
| Forum topic | Ralph Dartford at the Betsy Trotswood, London. 11th January | ralph | 1 | 1 year 9 months ago |
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My stories
Tramps Like Us
Tramps Like Us The song rages hard from the bedroom. Well, I guess it was selected on Hope. Alexa dealing jokers on an E Street Shuffle. All I want...
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- 286 reads
Our Little Secrets
Our Little Secrets I’ve given this swan a secret name, as people like me have to. I'm more open with my houseplants. Amongst others I have: Stanley...
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- 177 reads
Blackpool
Blackpool The weight of it is still present. A dropped book from a tenement. Sealed and unread, dared to be slit. A music hall town of tea leaves,...
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- 196 reads
Fighting Pirates
Fighting Pirates On days when I wake up in tears, engulfing my low tide, the rock pools of a right old life. I have one last trick. They won’t come...
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- 205 reads
Uncoupling
Uncoupling And here they are. Ice white. The canal buzzed with evolution. An afternoon in astounding heat. They entwine for life, these couples. Will...
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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
Thank you
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
Thank you Yutka.
Yes, my books are available at the following links.
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Hijacked
Posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2025
Looks like my poem has been hijacked on this thread. Which is a shame. Oh well.
Read full commentPosted in Safe Home
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
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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.
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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!