Poetry

Pens of the Earth

Here’s a link to something else I’m involved with – a local project here in Portsmouth to help with Seagrass restoration in the Solent – which is critical for marine life, and also excellent from a wider ecological perspective – Seagrass is significant for carbon capture I’m judging the poetry competition, and you can see a link here 6 days left also for the crowd funding element https://pensoftheearth.co.uk

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Pompey Programme

Catching up on the Pompey Programme front, at least those involving my poems. Here’s one from the match on Saturday 7th October It was written as a response to a request for two words to describe what people who worked at the club thought about Portsmouth FC, and what it meant to them. An interesting exercise. Not sure the poem is one of my best, but I think it captures the sentiment. The body copy…

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Poetry

The NHS at 75

On the NHS’ 75th birthday, rather than going into a long rant – what’s the point? – we all know what the Tories have done to the country in the name of austerity over the last 13 years, and how this has impacted on all our public services, and not just the NHS, I thought I’d re-share this poem I wrote to be displayed in one of the Covid wards at QA Hospital. I hope…

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Refugee Week – Portsmouth Event

A quick mention of an event happening in Portsmouth on June 24th. As with Sunday’s post, this information is lifted from a Facebook post. Looks like an excellent event, and for an important cause. Just helping to spread the word. This Iconic location within the heart of the city will be hosting a vibrant event of rappers, poets, musicians and much more exciting entertainment.  432-Nomads and Portsmouth City of Sanctuary will be taking you on…

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