Tab Hunter - d. July 8th 2018

To the girls 
you left behind 
you were everything;
swoon-bait, boy soldier,
young love whose smile
broke hearts
ninety-nine ways.

read about Tab Hunter here

Peter Firmin - d. July 1st 2018

Listen to the Otwituary here

Read about Peter Firmin here

Harlan Ellison - d. June 27th 2018

On the edge of forever
is a city of gold and glass,
though it is founded 
on pulped fictions 
and the girders 
of your imagination.

Read about Harlan Ellison here

Leslie Grantham - d. June 15th 2018

Sometimes the script
leaves the door ajar
for unlikely resurrections.
A weighted soul 
sinks into a canal,
and everything 
is murk and ripples.

Read more about Leslie Grantham

Eunice Gayson - d. June 8th 2018

Do you remember 
the first time? The thrill
of someone’s surrender
to the kiss, or the kill?
It bonds me to forever;
indelible, uneditable, still.

read about Eunice Gayson here

Peter Stringfellow - d. June 7th 2018

Your perdition;

to become Tiresias

in basque and mullet,

work the eternal club

where gentlemen

are not gentlemen

and all members 

are upstanding.

Read about Peter Stringfellow here

Alan Bean - d. May 26th 2018

Your canvasses,
- footsteps in dust,
blue globe on
a gold-leaf visor -
stretch 240,000 miles,
hang in the galleries
of our future.

read more about Alan Bean here

Verne Troyer - d. April 21st 2018

Hollywood is no Lilliput,

no imaginarium;

it is the reality

that shelters the unreal,

where stature

is not measured

in feet and inches.

Read about Verne Troyer here

Dale Winton - d. April 18th 2018

Teeth, tan, eyes, camera, 

hypersmooth, always
in control. 
When the klaxon sounds

there will be prizes

for anyone with showbiz 
in their soul.

Read about Dale Winton here

R. Lee Ermey - d. April 15th 2018

Angels? I seen

maggots holier

than thou.

What you grinnin' 

so beatifically at?

I’ll ram that halo

so far down your neck

you'll be shittin'

miracles…

Read about R. Lee Ermey here

Miloš Forman - d. April 13th 2018

It’s the talk 
of the day room;
you and McMurphy
- not gone upstairs
but together in escape.
It’s easier than 
you think, Chief.

Read about Miloš Forman here

Eric Bristow - d. April 5th 2018

A nickel-tungsten 

22-gramme 

smudges the lipstick 

of double 16. 

Your swagger 

is a dart to the heart;

we go round the board

with you, one last time.

read about Eric Bristow here

Steven Bochco - d. April 1st 2018

7am. Roll call. Anyone
seen Bochco? No one’s
seen Bochco. Downtown,
asleep in a dumpster
or hustling undercover,
too Street to be sweet,
always careful out there.

Read about Steven Bochco here

Bill Maynard - d. March 30th 2018

Oh no. Flags fly low

across thorpes and thwaites, 

rough-handed men

sink pints of cooking,

slur Magic our Maurice,

bumble to the lonely grave.

Read about Bill Maynard here

Katie Boyle - d. March 20th 2018

Europe awaits you,
its forêts and Straßen
trembling in tulle, organza. 
Et maintenant 
les votes du jury Élysian.
Can you hear me Élysia?

read about Katie Boyle here

Jim Bowen - d. March 14th 2018

The reputation you made

in the clubs, that's safe;

will you consider gambling it

on TV? You have the time

it takes for the world to revolve…

Read about Jim Bowen here

Stephen Hawking - d. March 14th 2018

All bodies eventually collapse

into themselves, and yet

the radiation from your mind

will be a constant, detectable

at the end of all things.

Read about Stephen Hawking here

Ken Dodd - d. March 11th 2018

What a beautiful day missus,

for going backstage

at the Hippodrome, 

dark as a jam butty mine, 

to listen for the ghost 

that outjoked them all.

Read about Ken Dodd here

Trevor Baylis - d. March 5th 2018

Let them say 
there is no power here.
Let them say
no-one will send the words.
You said
I will bring you power;
the words will come to you.

Read about Trevor Baylis here

Roger Bannister - d. March 3rd 2018

Tick. Tick. Final sprint.
Chataway and Brasher
dropped already. Tape, dip.
Personal best. First, forever,
in this or any other race.

read about Roger Bannister here