All posts tagged Poetry

Charleyboy’s Following

I can’t seem to concentrate on my notebook unless I’m out and about, so I went for a wander around Bridgnorth again the other day. It was bloody freezing,  but productive; five pages of shaky prose is better than nothing at all. I went past the ruins, took in the view, warmed myself with milky coffee [...]

Narrowly trespassing

Je vais te suivre sur les routes, à travers les rêves, à travers c hamps, nous avons l abouré, pavée avec d es intentions réalisé trop tard. Je te suivra i sans cesse, sans pitié , avec fureur, et ne se reposera pas jusqu’à ce que tu es à moi. Tra vers la France, à [...]

Charleyboy’s Burning

Thank you Laba for the very kind review of Fight the Sky, which can be read here and here, among other places! And now, why don’t we see the weekend out with something mean-spirited and gratuitously violent? Charleyboy’s Burning When he wakes the man sees he is done; tied to a chair, mouth stuffed with rags, [...]

Tristesse

Tristesse, she’s dressed in cashmere and cream, curled in the corner, feet tucked under her knees, drinking milk through a straw with a handful of raisins she scraped off the floor. She followed me home after watching me work; let herself in and locked up, left her keys in the door. We talk politics, sometimes, [...]

Year in review

End as you mean to go on. Or should that be start? We’re on the edge of 2011, staring down the barrel of 2012. I’m wrapping up this mad, tangled year with a cup of tea and a seat by the fire, basking in the glow of twenty-one successful eBay listings and the wonderful news [...]