Chadwick Boseman - d. August 28th 2020

Run forever, hero,
hand in hand with Bast
and Sekhmet, across
the endless veld,
where beautiful men
drop to one knee, bow,
and are held up to the sky.

Read about Chadwick Boseman here

Julian Bream - d. August 14th 2020

Come heavy sleep
and still the strings,
the squeak of frets,
the brush of fingertips,
the memory of timbre:
all else is resonance.

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Ben Cross - d. August 18th 2020

The screen life affords
just ten lonely seconds
to justify your existence,
to take arrows of desire,
speed, passion, elegance,
and secure them in time. 

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Wayne Fontana - d. August 6th 2020

After the game concludes

come the impossible years,

the impossible decades,

6-minute slots to deaf ears,

where groovy turns to gravy,

and yet, and yet, you were here.

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C P Lee - d. July 25th 2020

I learned to write this gibberish

in your mindless classroom - 

you, fluent in every language 

(except the serious ones), all

in sub-dialects of Mancunian,

words and music made bonkers,

blown like snuff into the world.

Read about C P Lee here