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This is a selection of my poetry.

"Durable Goods" PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 08 January 2010

When Aleathia first approached me to ask whether I'd like to submit to her microzine "Durable Goods",  I had no idea what a microzone was. But then the old linguist in a far end corner of my brain poked me with his cane and croaked: "MAG = big" "MICRO"= small", ye big eejit!

When i finally got my copies in the post, I was more than pleasantly surprised. The whole idea, the layout, the way it was folded, the cover design... I just loved it. Aleathia, who is a nurse by day and a brilliant poet and editor by night, accepted two of my poems in issue five, and I'm really humbled and honoured by that. Submission is by invitation only, but have a look at the blogspot and maybe you'd even like to subscribe:

http://durablegoodsmicrozine.blogspot.com/

 

 
Snow PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 27 November 2008

I have a certain fascination with polar expeditions. There is one man who really stands out amongst them all (at least that's my opinion) and that's Douglas Mawson, who walked hundreds of miles all alone through the Antarctic back to base camp after losing his companions and all of his sled dogs.

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Night Out PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 27 November 2008
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Creeps PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
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Reincarnation PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 05 August 2007

This poem is inspired by an article that was printed in The Times newspaper on 4 August 2007. The headline read "China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate"

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