David Jacobs - d. September 2nd 2013

Away from lives
of feedback and excess,
needle time, and bouts
of juke box fury, 
you remained a gentleman 
in an ungentle world.

Read about David Jacobs here 

David Frost - d. August 31st 2013

This was the man that was;
son of Swift & Pope,
ten generations removed.

From the cooling armchair

a voice -

Hello, good evening. Goodbye.

Read about David Frost here

Seamus Heaney - d. August 30th 2013

All I knew of poetry 
was a door into the dark; 
you painted the bogs 
with words, lit fires
along the Liffey,
laced Nordic skies 
with wonder.

Read about Seamus Heaney here 

Mike Winters - d. August 24th 2013

It must have hurt
to live at the edge

of the lens, yet, 

like all good feeds,

you knew,

the straighter the face
the louder the laughs.

Read about Mike Winters here

Elmore Leonard - d. August 20th 2013

We'll see your name everywhere;
ballistics reports, rap sheets,
held up in mugshots,
at the bottom of a shot glass,
drained to the dregs.

Read about Elmore Leonard here

Karen Black - d. August 8th 2013

We sing in praise

of an older woman;

occasionally up

on the marquee,

promising something

with those eyes

but never as easy

as titles suggested.

Read more about Karen Black here 

Ray Harryhausen - d. May 7th 2013

We were marooned

from birth

on a desolate isle;

you sent Sinbad and Jason

to rescue us,

reimagined the world

in miniature,

to make it bigger.

Read about Ray Harryhausen here 

Angelo Dundee - d. February 1st 2012

You had a plan 
for every punk; 
jab and move, 
stay on your toes 
and off the ropes.
The ring 
has four corners;
you were there
in all of them.

Read about Angelo Dundee here 

Mel Smith - d. July 19th 2013

'eard the news?
What?
That comedian. Croaked.
Well, he did have a face like a toad.
'Ave some respect. I thought 'e was funny
Not now 'e isn't.

Read about Mel Smith here 

Bert Trautmann - d. July 19th 2013

After the war,
you found yourself
in the right place,
at the right time,
playing the game
your captors invented,
yet still
playing the game.

Read more about Bert Trautmann here 

Chester Harriott - d. July 15th 2013

Let me lift the lid

for the Liberace

of Fitzrovia,

his velvet fingers

itching for arpeggios,

but his keyboard

just one forgotten octave.

Read more about Chester Harriott here