Today I released Volume 551, “I Prefer Green/Environmentalists”! Check it out here:
Volume 551 – I Prefer Green-Environmentalists
An eclectic “grab-bag” of different styles and themes. Kind of apropos to my hectic life at present!
New volume: President Nixon, 1973
Today I released Volume 550, “President Nixon, 1973”! Check it out here:
Volume 550 – President Nixon, 1973
For the love of Christ please don’t ask me what I was smoking while writing THIS volume!!!
This one is primarily a series of whimsical tableaux, written with no particular theme, intent or purpose in mind except for assuaging an intently overactive imagination on an intensely boring day.
New volume: I’d Sooner Head to Brummagem!/Forced to Swim
Today I released Volume 549, “I’d Sooner Head to Brummagem!/Forced to Swim”! Check it out here:
Volume 549 – I’d Sooner Head to Brummagem!-Forced to Swim
Over the past couple of weeks – months? YEARS??? – the world has made some real dumb decisions. This volume is about a few (just a few!) of these.
New volume: Fathers Giving Advice
Today I released Volume 548, “Fathers Giving Advice”! Check it out here:
Volume 548 – Fathers Giving Advice
The “title poem” is dedicated to my Dad. The subject matter of “Lush Lawn” might be something he would struggle with!
New volume: When We Have Been Getting It Wrong
Today I released Volume 547, “When We Have Been Getting It Wrong”! Check it out here:
Volume 547 – When We Have Been Getting It Wrong
Written in its entirety in a single evening. I love it when volumes like these come together.
New volume: Big, Bright, Red
Today I released Volume 546, “Big, Bright, Red”! Check it out here:
This volume is a volume of two halves – the first half, a conventional volume as conventional as any I have done to date.
The second half – “Mistakes” on – comes from a far darker, depressed and solitary space. There were reasons for this, which I will not go into here; however it led to several deeper, more introspective works as a result.
Hope you enjoy.
New volume: If I Look At The Sun
Today I released Volume 545, “If I Look At The Sun”! Check it out here:
Volume 545 – If I Look At The Sun
“The One Person I Assumed Never Would” is my favourite out of this collection, this time round. Another volume written over a mere 24-hour period.
New volume: Little Black Dress
Today I released Volume 544, “Little Black Dress”! Check it out here:
Volume 544 – Little Black Dress
A quick turn-around with this one, written the evening after the last volume (held over till today), this is another one that came together incredibly quickly. Hope you enjoy.
New volume: Songs for Stephen
Today I released Volume 543, “Songs for Stephen”! Check it out here:
Volume 543 – Songs for Stephen
June 2022 so far has proved a remarkably fallow period for my writing. It happens, it has happened before – and I had resigned myself to waiting this period out, before going on to churn out 14 works in little over an afternoon!
These 14 poems are a little warped and deformed, a result of their peculiar gestation. Rhythmically they are quite possibly unique among my works, each flowing one into the other in a “flow-of-consciousness” style.
As ways, a big thank you to my little brother for providing inspiration when I needed it most.
New volume: Pull Down Your Palace!
Today I released Volume 542, “Pull Down Your Palace!”! Check it out here:
Volume 542 – Pull Down Your Palace!
Now that the veranda’s up, and the table and chairs are out, sitting outside and enjoying the rays of late spring over the past two days has inspired this new volume of works, mostly scribbled down on A4 in a return to last year’s primary method of working.
Several of the poems – “Incarcerated in Spain,” “Pull Down Your Palace!” – have roots in historical subjects I have been reading about/listening to lately. “You Think You’re Being Kind” is one of my particular faves this time around.
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