Tuesday 15 November 2011

Fat man through the window bagging up his packed lunch under strip lights

Sunday 13 November 2011

storks in the arteries

the rumbling
muscle underneath
the dip of fabric
that is my pocket


<...made me answer my phone, dumb...>


a parataxis 
of ligament & bone
a dislocation 
of sense from matter


<...it is unexplained, disconnected...>


an accident
an uncomfortable 
glide of cloth
& screen perhaps?


<...a dryness of hope, more likely...>


that way (east) 
there is Poland
& the pure blast 
of Russia beyond


<...extracting revenge, short-twitch on my thigh...>


a tremor in the leg
storks in the arteries
flightless birds, fish rotting 
in their blocked gullets


<...I am ringing, not the phone...>

Tuesday 1 November 2011

the boy's bicycle chain shivered as his back wheel jumped the curb

Wednesday 21 September 2011

La Granada

I forgot to say, I have a poem published in the first edition of new Norwegian poetry magazine, La Granada. It's great. You can read for free online or buy a hardcopy.



UPDATE: LOOKS LIKE THEY'VE STOPPED PUBLISHING.

I, a at least, have a copy to show it all happened.

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE:

You can get copies here.

Thursday 15 September 2011

Monday 27 June 2011

Sunday 8 May 2011

Fragments, scraps and off cuts of Scavengers















Plate VII. Male & female
cockroaches with egg-sac,
spiders’ webs, a cedar in
Highgate cemetery.

XII.

blue tit at coconut
unusual site of blackbird’s nest
this rookery too was deserted

Plate IV













XIII.

large horizontal branches
of the trees . ecclesiastical of birds
the jackdaw must rank

Plate V













XIII.

in the grounds
of the Zoo
- her normal clutch

Plate XI













XIII.

most ancient rookery sites
three cartloads of sticks
- hung on longer

Plate XII













XIV.

nothing zipped pass
the decaying notes of the moon
& its metres-wide
disintegration

of atoms.

Saturday 7 May 2011

The Scavengers of London eBook on The Red Ceilings Press

Read my new poetry ebook, The Scavengers Of London, for free, on the excellent The Red Ceilings Press.


Link straight to it here.




extract

flood of buildings. London’s
many little streams & flatlands
after the conquest of Waterloo



the metropolis sacrificed
engulfed by fruit & vegetables
the marshiness of much



woodcock & snipe
five fields till the middle
decaying stalks of the flowering rush



by the osier pond. A common
bird along a small hillock
instead of through a sewer

Saturday 30 April 2011

Fragment / offline | \ | /

And you said:
'we are just a flash
of consciousness
in the eternal
darkness.'

And I said:
'I can't remember who
won The XFactor
last year.'

Sunday 3 April 2011

Excerpt from Chalk Face


18.

before the assessed,
the millions

begin.


something   nothing


undone the ties,
the uniforms

dis-scratch.


poly   monosyllabic.


allowed the paragraphs,
the line breaks

unbroken.


type   upset

desperate the room,
the panicking

bird-like.


breath egg taking.

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