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Abscission
Abscission At my kitchen window the kettle almost boiled. The flowers are dying and a cat stares from the fence. A hurricane in Florida blows away...
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Taken From the Prison Library
Taken From the Prison Library Wish for them the cigarette smiled girls of 1948. Lipstick curled, etched stockings and a try if you dare sweetheart...
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Jimmy
Jimmy Under the trees at the end of the field. The day we built our camp. We had rusty nails, sweet cigarettes. A radio that played opera. You showed...
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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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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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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
Rationale
Posted on Fri, 11 Oct 2024
The journey of a poem. I posted a version of this yesterday. However, I wasn’t truly happy with it even after a couple of week’s of redraft after redraft. The weight of it was not quite right, especially in the middle stanza. I’ve given a nod to...
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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...
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