This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.
May 2024
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Outside my hotel, / around the corner from the neon mirage / of the central shopping street, / a woman squats in the roadway, / a metre from the gutter / in the cold rain, / pants down / by her bag-lady bag … Read more
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Especially if you’re new to writing and publishing, you might think you don’t need to edit your poetry. After all, the poems we love to read seem so effortless. Surely the words were directly inspired by the Universe and could never have been anything other than what they are? Read more
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Up late this morning. “They” are doing the / road outside, putting in traffic-calming / devices: trees in the middle of the road, / speed platforms, kerbs, marked lanes. Is this / how prize-winning poets write … Read more
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Why is higher maths / so full of the names of men? / Godel’s theorem, / Cauchy sequence, Hilbert space, / Gaussian, Hamiltonian, Lagrangian. // Highschool calculus wasn’t like that. / The derivative was not / the Newton function, / the integral not / the Leibnitzian. // Irrational numbers, imaginary numbers, / complex and transcendental… Read more
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… Her father is the gardener. He keeps it / well, wanders in it like Wittgenstein. The others / make fun of him. The child watches // their cartwheels. Asks. One, two, / three, they laugh. But the child is not co- / ordinated. She doesn’t have her count / together. The numbers come /… Read more
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they died moaning the structure / of their skins failed // as I sat above / the sea in a human space / white chairs white gravel / a high Hellenic shore / they came out of the sea // the whales bloated with water / moaning … Read more
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