Monday, 27 June 2022

Graham Skidmore - d. December 21st 2022

Will it be number one,
the man who’s 90% chuckle,
number two, comfortable as a 
dralon sofa, or number three, 
the warden of Camp Kitsch.
The choice…is yours!



Sunday, 26 June 2022

Frank Williams - d. June 26th 2022

A bell tolls at St Aldhelms,
late gothic and moribund,
uncertain of its boundaries.
A toothsome cleric sighs, 
mounts the peeling pulpit.
Having nothing to say, he says 
nothing, and yet so much. 


Tuesday, 21 June 2022

Matt Zimmerman - d. June 9th 2022

I heard Tin-Tin crying 
late at night, 
looking for a red streak in the sky.
A star-soaked voice crackled 
from the radio in Father's study,
and a swimming pool rippled. 


Patricia Brake - d. May 28th 2022

I am not worthy of you, my Venus 
in fake furs, scripted and portrayed
as heir apparent to the throne of 
Muswell Hill, bursting onto set and 
out of it, bristling at lags and lechers,
all spit and spine beneath that sweater.



Saturday, 11 June 2022

Julee Cruise - d. June 9th 2022

I heard a voice on the wind,
a falling angel, echoing 
from canyon to cantina,
part child, part woman,
breathing in strangeness,
breathing out romance.



Thursday, 9 June 2022

Bruce Kent - d. June 8th 2022

Not for the powerful but for the weak.
Not to tolerate horror but to face it.
Not to bear arms but to offer a cheek.
Not to wait for peace but to proclaim it.
Not for the bellicose but for the meek.
Not to inherit the world but to save it.

Wednesday, 8 June 2022

Paula Rego - d. June 8th 2022

You choose your rebel canvas,
paint what is partially there
but wholly felt, knowing a duty
of art is to defy and to confess.
Now you are a collage of air,
assembled from shocking beauty.

Tuesday, 7 June 2022

Dave Smith - d. May 31st 2022

The imagination talks
to a click track which talks 
to a drum machine which
talks to a bassline which
talks to a sequencer which
triggers a sample which 
triggers a groove which 
triggers feet, heart, head, 
triggers an imagination.