Poetry

Bosnia

First published 1994/1995 nero sits in his white house eating big macs and playing the sax while adolf in munich dances a jig rachel stands alone forsaken by the world weeping for her children like an audience at the coliseum watching gladiators fight the world waits for her children to die with pilate we wash […]

Poetry

On Poetry

  I have been writing now in earnest for around 25 years. I started writing TV and film scripts, and then moved to playwriting before – a little over a year ago – I found myself inexplicably returning to poetry (where in truth it all began) – this time, however, I found I had a […]

Poetry

So What, If

So What, If What if you’re told you can’t, when you know you can When you’re still in the running not an also ran Start off last and end up first The party’s last balloon to burst To be full of intention but put down when you try Yet stand straight back up and throw defiance in […]