Zaha Hadid - d. 31st March 2016

Plans for Heaven's redesign

are in; 
interplay of glass and void,

curving at the command of steel,

remaking a skyline

in a place without sky.

Read about Zaha Hadid here

Ronnie Corbett - d. March 31st 2016

...later in the show

we put Britain's

tiniest comedian

under the microscope,

but now it's goodnight

from me, and it's goodbye

from him. Goodbye.

Read about Ronnie Corbett here

Johan Cruyff - March 24th 2016

I saw the playback;

you & St Peter

outside the area. 

A jink of the heel

turned him inside out,

left for dead,
had all Heaven

leaping to its feet.

Read about Johan Cruyff here

Barry Hines - d. March 18th 2016

They’re coming out for you;
from trees and grey streets. 
You, who taught them to talk
in their own accent, slip
their jesses, take to the wing.

Read about Barry Hines here 

Paul Daniels - d. March 17th 2016

Turning turgid sleight of hand 
to gold, 
homeliness to handsome profit, 
joker into ace, 
Teesside into Vegas;
Now that's magic.

Read about Paul Daniels here

Sylvia Anderson - d. March 16th 2016

Time to stub out the Sobranie,

leave the mansion of the future.

The Rolls is purring pinkly 
at the door, waiting 
till your final mission is GO!

Read about Sylvia Anderson here

Peter Maxwell Davies - d. March 14th 2016

We are coming out
of radioactive houses,
up Binkie's Brae, 
pulling your piano behind us 
to the place 
where the whole world 
can hear it.

Read about Peter Maxwell Davies here

Ken Adam - d. March 10th 2016

Your body lies, dead wrist
chained to a ticking bomb

beneath the volcano

in a sepulchre built
to your particular design.

Read about Ken Adam here

George Martin - d. March 8th 2016

Your desk has many channels;

bass, drums, 2 guitars, 2 vocals,

strings, screams, howls of acid,

plus one for every soul alive

since 1962.

Read about George Martin here

Tony Warren - d. March 2nd 2016

You’re alive; echoing in drains
on dark streets; empty spaces
where words live; in grains
between cobbles; in faces
shining in the Salford rain.

Read about Tony Warren here