It’s a truism that messianic war mongers are willing to send others to their death. Seemingly at ease with their decisions to condemn both civilians and soldiers to an early grave. So focussed on their own destiny, they seem happy enough to throw away the destinies of so many others. They sicken me with their rhetoric about hard decisions that have to be made, when they are insulated from the consequences. I’m still trying to…
A powerful article in the Guardian today on the poets challenging Myanmar’s military https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/23/is-the-world-listening-the-poets-challenging-myanmars-military In view of what is happening in that country at the moment, you should be aware that the article could well justify trigger warnings – as the poems shared include first hand commentary and accounts of what victims have experienced.
I’ve updated my poem page to include those posted here in April & May 2020 – they include the first poem I ever had in print, (apart from in a local CND magazine long since lost), and one of my go to performance poems (as much as I am a ‘performance’ poet).
How was Eunice for you? Or Dudley? Or Corrie, Malik, Barra or Arwin? Are you looking forward to Gladys, Herman, Olwen or Ruby? I’ve read some of the reports, seem some of the data. There’s lots more of this, and worse, on the way. We all know this. But we kid ourselves that someone, somewhere has the solution. And maybe they do. And is there anything we as individuals can do, whilst oil companies make…
Additional poems added to the poems page of this website. These are all from posts from back in March 2020. I hope you like them if you missed them first time around. I’ll add a few more next week.
I’ve been listening to a lot of 1970s music this week. On Twitter I follow someone who posts polls each fortnight, asking people to vote for their 5 favourite albums from a particular year. This fortnight people are posting their recommendations from 1976. Most years my decision making is pretty fluid up until the last minute, but this time my choices are pretty much cast in stone. Well, four of them are. A couple of…
I was going to write a longer blog post today, but a number of eBay sales from my sideline business that needed wrapping and preparing for dispatch, and then having to take a couple of hours out to fix a recalcitrant printer put paid to that. I did manage to revamp the look of my website. You can now see a selection of poems and prose pieces on the top bar. As a starting point…