This is the poem that is never finished. I must have written about 20 stanzas and have never settled on a version I am happy with. This is a much shorter edited version, with a more positive tone than some previous incarnations. It explores co-dependency in relationships. As an oak tree …
I had a very strange dream the night before last, potentially the result of watching too many zombie films lately. In my dream I was trying to escape a disease that was spreading across London. Started by the nip of a pigeon, as the infection developed a very strange transformation …
Geoffrey Farmer’s ‘The Surgeon and the Photographer’ opened in the Barbican’s Curve Gallery yesterday. Although I wasn’t familiar with him, a Canadian installation artist born in 1967, the concept of using photographic reproduction to create new artwork intrigued me so I went to take a look. The exhibition features 365 puppets, one created every …
Water Abstracts
Taken on a Pentax K-r.
February 2013.
Have you ever loved a book so much you wanted to swallow it and hear it playing in your head like a commentary? As clear as your own consciousness, relating itself to everything you think and do? That’s how I feel about Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut. Every time I …
Tonight has inspired new words; new words on words. Fresh thoughts on thinking. Chew on your words before you spit them We won’t always be here to hear them And we don’t have time for time to waste On words uttered with no meaning On words said in desperate haste. …
Like fireworks in my head, this event tonight (http://poejazzimarch-eorgf.eventbrite.com/ http://www.poejazzi.com/) has exploded in my head and sent thoughts and ideas cascading through my mind like a waterfall in anti-gravity. Creative. Captivating. Innovative. Passionate. Profound. It gets into your head. It gets under your skin. It sits in your soul, and …
Standing alone on a clear night, outside of London, where the sky is black and inky as oppose to dirty-brown looking I looked up at the sky and thought. Thought, and thought. Just thought. It’s not often enough we as an urban species do that anymore and I honestly think …
