Monthly Archives: September 2022

Money!!!!!

One of the two things in life we can never avoid (the other, of course, being death!) This is a performance poem, and in part a ‘found’ poem, in that I use the words of Elmore James (‘Shake your moneymaker’), … Continue reading

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Dancing my way to death

Here is the final poem of my four poem set to musical accompaniment at Elizabeth Haines’ art gallery/studio in Pembrokeshire, Wales on August 27th 2022. In case not all the words are clear in the recording, I have printed the … Continue reading

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Fake truth blues

Here comes the third of a series of four poems that I performed to musical accompaniment on August 27th 2022. A dystopian view of the future, perhaps? Or even of the present? Fake truth blues There’s a child on a … Continue reading

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Let’s Dance (again!)

Here is the link to the second of my four poems that were read to musical accompaniment at the studio/gallery of Elisabeth Haines in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on August 22nd 2022. This poem was originally published on this site in April … Continue reading

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