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Drew Gummerson
Author of Me and Mickie James (Jonathan Cape) and The Lodger (GMP), and many stories here and there. Follow me at @drewgum
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Sven Goes to War. Part 3. I Want to Break Free
Sven was at breakfast the following morning when his mother, at work in the shop downstairs serving the fishermen their worms and copies of Nude...
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Sven Goes to War. Part 2. Private Life.
Private Life Back in those days, and once again much later as a contented old man with his collection of petrified camel toes, Azeri hats made of...
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Sven Goes to War. Part 1. Warriors of the Wasteland
Sven Goes to War. Part 1. Warriors of the Wasteland. While their parents watched War 73 ( The war to end all… etc etc) spin out on Nightly News , the...
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On the Spectrum
On the Spectrum. It is 1986. Margaret Thatcher is sat firmly on her throne. The Chernobyl Nuclear disaster is just on the horizon. People are...
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The Aquarium. Part 5. I Can’t Make You Love Me.
Their father’s funeral might have been a sorry affair if they had gone. But they did not. The two brothers were only pleased to see each other and...
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A really beautiful poem for
Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020
A really beautiful poem for our times.
Read full commentPosted in Deimos
Last week's dystopian fantasy
Posted on Fri, 20 Mar 2020
Last week's dystopian fantasy is this week's autobiography. And I like how it contain's a faux autobiography within it.
Read full commentPosted in Unprecedented
It's the small things,
Posted on Thu, 19 Mar 2020
It's the small things, snoooker, is genius.
I could read these all day.
Drew
Read full commentPosted in Poker Ladies
A very calm precise poem, and
Posted on Tue, 17 Mar 2020
A very calm precise poem, and wise words in light of the current panic stations.
Read full commentPosted in To wait
Lovely to hear you read this.
Posted on Sun, 15 Mar 2020
Lovely to hear you read this. It doesn't sound like ash trays. Beautiful.
Read full commentPosted in Ash Trees
Sounds like a plan. Rock and
Posted on Fri, 13 Mar 2020
Sounds like a plan. Rock and roll will never die while you're still rocking and rolling.
Read full commentPosted in Motorway City (Rock'n'Roll will never die)
I enjoyed this. It's such a
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2020
I enjoyed this. It's such a strange situation we're in that it feels like fiction.
Read full commentPosted in Does Anyone Know If There Is A Hotline For Alien Abduction? I'd Like To Request One. We Have Lost Our Collective Minds.
Nice to see a poem about
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2020
Nice to see a poem about snooker. I love snooker. And I recommend Gordan Burns book Pocket Money.
Read full commentPosted in Snookered
Love it. Not sure about worms
Posted on Mon, 09 Mar 2020
Love it. Not sure about worms being good enough to eat tho :) Although I do remember getting that book out from the mobile library when I was a kid.... I Can Eat Worms.
Read full commentPosted in Ode to Compost
Conjures up a lovely image of
Posted on Wed, 04 Mar 2020
Conjures up a lovely image of a Spring day. Took me right there. If only....
Read full commentPosted in This Fine Spring Day
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