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Click on a poem you want to read and then just go ahead and read it. (It's a sort of do it yourself,
pick your own, performance poet experience, (without the inconvenience of actually
having to have a performance poet in the house) so make the most of it.))

The Man Who Spent Years In The Bath
Erich Von Danekin
Poem About Nikolai Gogol
On Meeting Milton
The Carving Song
37 Ways To Leave Your Yak
Ignore This Poem
Fairy Tale Poem
If It's Not Broken...
I Can't Do Punk
Listening To The Grateful Dead
A Poem About King Cnut & His Chief Advisor
 The Sometimes Surprising Adventures Of Arthur Wisconsin: Episode One - 'Explosion At Earl's Cabin.'
 My Neighbour Has Had A Dream
A Poem Containing An Example Of Evolution, A Poor Pun And A Failure To Rhyme At The End
An Anatomy Of Melancholy
Sir Isaac Newton
 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Scientists Poem
 The Plankton Poem


(And in the next section you can read some of the non-performance poems
and have your very own sort of fake poetry chapbook-cum-slim volume experience.)

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Actaeon
And without warning
Atlanticism
Dust
The Maze
'You are sleeping next door'
'There is no need tonight to talk so much'
St. Leonard & The Dragon
When The World Doesn't Play Fair
Stone
A Curiosity, Only
'It is an afternoon'
On Self-Consciousness
Unthinking
No Aspirin
Summertime
Idioglossia
Icarus
Harold's Song


Poems have been published over the years in the following publications:
Pulsar (Nothing Much Or Something Slightly Less Impressive / The Yak / Love Everyone / Copyright Issues / Dust / Travelling);
Iota
(This Title Is Merely An Alternative / Watching The Sunset Silhouetting Trees / Matins: Stainfield, 1519 / Crossbar Boys / Landscape: January 11th 2007);
Smoke (It's Not Important Enough to Win);
The Nail
(Chances / Suddenly It Snowed / Artemis (The Nymph's Tale) / Avoiding Sirens / Slight / Woodlouse / Artemis In The City / Leda / Busking Girl / Snow Arrives Like Love, Overnight);
The Unruly Sun
(Poem About Sharing A Flat / And All The While There Is A Subtext / Harold's Song / Perhaps There Is Nothing Left);
Smiths Knoll
(Atlanticism / Omens & Portents / Heron).
Tears In The Fence
(Persimmon / Keep On Keeping On).
Cauldron
(Ghosts);
The Coffee House (Unthinking / Woodlouse).

As well as 'I Can't Say I Feel Like Oedipus' and 'The Sea Slug Song', which were published in the Waterstone's Broad Street Competition Anthologies for 1997 and 1999.
Knots was highly commended in the 2005 Bluechrome Poetry Competition;
The Name
was highly commended in the 2006 Salisbury House Competition;
On Balance was placed in the 2007 Norfolk Poets & Writers Winter Competition;
Home-Cooked
and This Englishman In Paris were both commended in the Leaf Books Spring 2007 Poetry Competition;
Flood recieved a merit in the 2007 Nottingham Open Poetry Competition.


Prose pieces


This section is a bunch of reviews written either for Blackwell's On-Line Bookshop (books), or for the BBC Berkshire website (shows).
For the most part this is hack work at its very finest.

But first links to an article the BBC commissioned about How To Be A Performance Poet - Draft One, Draft Two, Final Draft.

         
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