February 15, 2016
Finding a Way
So I turn again to my confused Monkey in his golden year, trusting those deep currents of wisdom still below the technocratic surface and wait for the way to find me once again.
Photographs
January 6, 2016
After Christmas
On this - the feast of the Epiphany, held in the West to be the end of the Christmas festivities, I drive around Sheffield doing chores and peering through the ubiquitous fog. The word epiphany comes from the Greek, to show, to reveal, to manifest, the feast
January 2, 2016
An Elegy to Sheffield for 2016
Unfortunately a hangover that hits those who cannot drink it the hardest.
October 28, 2015
in Photographs, Poetry
The October Blood – Part One
These wisps of disconsolation are a fleeting eulogy to falling, a carol to the withering season.
September 27, 2015
in Photographs, Poetry
Last Rites
Then when the stars tumble from the sky at the end, our shining will illuminate scars on love’s invincible face.
September 21, 2015
in Photographs, Poetry
A Poetic Manifesto
I will speak out about my city in my ready northern tongue and make a simple solid vow to tell your stories with the honesty I got from you.
August 20, 2015
The Sleeping Giant of Communal Action.
I hope that whatever happens in the Labour leadership elections the spectres, or are they the angels of social concern, communal action, and a commitment to again slay the modern versions of the five giant evils, will visit us again.
August 6, 2015
Enchanted Rock
What is it about these places that inspires a sense of awe. No wonder the first peoples named them as sacred.
July 17, 2015
in Photographs
Dereliction and Reflection.
'An old skin sheds no longer needed, a way of good belonging now outdated, letting go its grip I find my orbit round a greater force.'