Neil Simon - d. August 26th 2018

Your characters: simple

yet cock-eyed.

Your humour: truth,

but magnified,

the sweet and bitter

side by side.

read about Neil Simon here

Lindsay Kemp - d. August 24th 2018

Beyond dance,
beyond mime
beyond prose
is the essence
of performance;
how you moved, 
how you moved us.

Read about Lindsay Kemp here

Aretha Franklin - d. August 16th 2018

This is the gospel:
that a choir will gather
to wring the last drops
of song from their souls,
to give you your propers
when you get home.

Read about Aretha Franklin here

Bernard Hepton - d. July 27th 2018

The secret is out;
The Stalag is deserted,
the cafe is shuttered,
the last act 
has left the Circus.

Read about Bernard Hepton here

Barry Chuckle - d. August 5th 2018

To you, pratfalls are sense unspooled.
To me, slapstick is the purest art.
To you, fol-de-rol is for child or fool.
To me, I am the idiot at its heart.

Read about Barry Chuckle here

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