Beyond the oddball, the
biomechanics of wisdom;
not to teach the what,
but the how, the why.
Saturday, 16 December 2017
Monday, 11 December 2017
Keith Chegwin - d. December 11th 2017
I'd like to swap something,
anything, for a bouncy Scouser,
multi-coloured, smile fizzing
in the very depths of his
eyes.
Read about Keith Chegwin here
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Johnny Hallyday - d. December 6th 2017
Quand le disque finale s’estompe
comment est-il possible d’être forte?
Nous vivons dans des temps de folie
Elvis est vivant mais Johnny est mort
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
Christine Keeler - d. December 4th 2017
women without friends
still take on the sins
of invertebrate men.
read about Christine Keeler here
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
David Cassidy - d. November 21st 2017
This morning
I woke to a day
like a bad dream;
death in the Family,
all those damp-eyed girls
too young to know love
who thought
they loved you.
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Rodney Bewes - d. November 21st 2017
The truth of you
was in a million men
called Bob; suited,
suburban, provincial,
souvenirs of the people
we used to be.Jana Novotná - d. November 19th 2017
When life contrives
to slam your sharpest serves
back, and back, listen
for the whisper
at your ear; don't
worry,
you'll win this one day.Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Keith Barron - d. November 15th 2017
I’m sure I saw you
on the box
only last night,
comfortably real
in a low-ratings show
where all the parts
were bit parts.
Monday, 13 November 2017
Tim Gudgin - d. November 8th 2017
From the missing channel
comes a voice, nimble
cadences of scoreless draws
and late kick-offs moving like
scales to a harmonic point of rest.
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
Fats Domino - d. October 24th 2017
It's the aftershow party,
everyone’s here. Fat man
grins, paws rollin’, voice
like a slurred trombone.
Down here it's still,
the thrill is gone.
Tuesday, 24 October 2017
George Young - d. October 22nd 2017
1 The beat was not easy
2 One hell of a band
3 Your mind was on Friday
4 No flash in the pan
5 So what’s it to be, George?
Monday, 23 October 2017
Rosemary Leach - d. October 21st 2017
pushed you to the shoulder
of the frame, missing
that ordinary glamour,
that sultry stage-croak,
that neglected smoulder.
Monday, 16 October 2017
Sean Hughes - d. October 15th 2017
After all the shows,
those poems of sadness
and light,
it comes to this;
a beginning, a middle
without an end,
a joke
waiting for a punchline.
Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Tom Petty - d. October 2nd 2017
choked in dust.
You've been here many times before.
But none step down
from this tour bus,
you won't come around here no more.
Read about Tom Petty here
Thursday, 28 September 2017
Hugh Hefner - d. September 27th 2017
in silk pyjamas, have Bunnies
hoist your bier on bare shoulders,
hoist your bier on bare shoulders,
walk you through man-crowds
to your father's mansion.
Tuesday, 26 September 2017
Tony Booth - d. September 25th 2017
St Peter hears
a cockney voice
Tell 'im to cut 'is 'air
It was good enough
for Lennon and Trotsky;
it's good enough
for a randy Scouse git.Liz Dawn - September 25th 2017
squawking through the drizzle
of a Manchester sky,
circling the sooty chimneys,
turning away across the Red Rec.
Read about Elizabeth Dawn here
Thursday, 21 September 2017
William G. Stewart - d. September 21st 2017
'We start with three lives;
the one we dream of,
the one we fear,
the one we live'?
Sorry William,
lights out.
read about William G. Stewart here
Saturday, 16 September 2017
Harry Dean Stanton - d. September 15th 2017
There you go,
playing your final
haunted man,
face like a ruined mansion,
in from the blinding desert,
back to the old freezerino.
Friday, 15 September 2017
Grant Hart - d. September 14th 2017
Do you remember
the beautiful noise,
the
hardcore honey?
Turned on the news
to hear it had been
cut
out,
cut down to size.
Read about Grant Hart here
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