these thoughts
Alice’s existential angst
Yogesh Patel and the Indian Whales
The Indian whales surface at the National Poetry library, London! Yogesh Patel with Mona Dash, Dr Bashabi Fraser, Rishi Dastidar and Dr Debjani Chatterjee Poetry and the literary establishment in the UK remain in the denial of the British Indian poets. Anyone can askance the poetry magazines and also see the makeup of the audience …
microchipped humans
I once read a cheaply produced paperback called ‘The Mark Of The Beast‘, the mark being microchipped humans. Someone slipped it into my hand at Hammersmith Tube Station. It had a lurid green cover, I recall, and a traditional image of a horned devil. I remember sitting on the top of a London …
moneyless tree
A poem inspired by Theresa May’s 2017 comment to a nurse who hadn’t received a pay rise for 7 years. ‘There is no magic money tree’.
Pat and the saviour
A man on the brink of unemployment listens to a voice that tells him what to do next.