Category Archives: performance poetry

A big bag of blooming balderdash

Posted on March 24, 2023 by jadedmountain

Burnley and Barnsley in bidding battle to bring brown bears back to Britain. ‘Bloody bonkers idea!’ blasts Brenda Bassett from Barnstaple. I have always loved nonsense verse, especially that of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Spike Milligan. A lot of … Continue reading →

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Money!!!!!

Posted on September 28, 2022 by jadedmountain

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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