Aug 4, 2005
Two poems published in nthposition Neighbourhood watched Warm rain rises from the high street. Buggy wheels plough through cabbage shells that once were green. Above the sky hurries away on business of its own. We’re safe here for the moment. We’re free to evade each other, darting into shops, eating sandwiches… a humming sound permeates… Read more
Feb 4, 2005
Two poems published in Magma, February 2005 Friend at large Alan swings his bat-detector in self-defence. On their toes, humans creep in the penumbra cast by a lantern perched on his skull. Its beam rises over the Lea Valley like a klieg light, catching wildlife in its glare, setting creatures free – to hover on… Read more
Sep 30, 2004
Nottingham Open Poetry Competition 2005, Merit Prize The tractor tire, with its man-eating tread, wrestles with the wrought-iron plough whose elegant incisors blunt themselves against the chrome-stripped car door. In a poplar-sheltered hollow, these rootless things sink into the leafmould. Propane gas cylinder and knotted blue hose-pipe, bicycle seat and grinning radiator. Dragged from afar,… Read more
Jan 18, 2004
Five poems selected for Biscuit 2003 prize anthology (The Sensitively Thin Bill of the Shag, Biscuit 2003). Aesthetic Spare me the wallet-thumpers and mickey-takers, spare me the shyness of men in suits, spare me the tears of movers and shakers, spare me the hollow sound of flutes. Give me something boisterous, something bohemian something potable –… Read more
