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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. Seven Nights At The Flamingo Hotel is coming November 2020. Pre-order here https://www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store
My stories
A New Year Message
For the past three days I have been editing the final chapter of ‘The Penguin Variations’. So I am finishing it as the year ends. It’s been a good year.
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A Christmas Message
I was at friend’s house the other day and he informed me that some of his friends had recently purchased themselves an oil-less deep fat fryer for Christmas.
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The Writer is in...
The writer is in. Do you remember those scenes from Charlie Brown? Lucy is the dr, she has a wooden booth, and Charlie Brown goes to visit her.
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Seasons End
My top 10 books of the year.
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Shock! Horror! Plot in Crisis!
John Richardson was interviewed on Front Row this week. For the past 30 years he has been writing the biography of Picasso.
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I did!
Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020
I did!
Read full commentPosted in Deimos
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
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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