Beware, beware The Bobo Man !
Category: Poetry
Halloweening
I've always had a great love of Halloween. I have fond memories of singing ‘Halloween’s Coming!’ at school assembly, reading Meg and Mog books and Mrs Brown in Infant 1 reading us the story of 'Little Dog Turpin and the Hobyahs' when we were probably all far too young to hear it. This is my …
Silk Reeling With Two Hands
After going back to my Tai Chi class the other week after screwing my back up again, we spent a good part of the session silk reeling. It's one of those things thats easy to do, impossible to master and it's an excercise I find deeply satisfying. Step out, sink.Pick a cloud from the sky.Breathe.Take …
Induction/ Indoctrination
I doesn't take a genius to figure out that I wrote this sitting in KFC one afternoon. The whole training and doing staff reviews, interviews, appraisals, in front of the public gets right on my nerves, but also I find it fascinating eavesdropping on other peoples lives. Induction/ Indoctrination Sat in KFC on me Jack …
The Blob
Art by the wonderful Jemma Klein who you can find here https://www.instagram.com/jemmaklein/ So whilst doing my MA I wrote a portfolio of poems about classic movie monsters, but with that extra something as well. I'll going to share some of them with you, as it's approaching Halloween. This one is a written as a villanelle, …
