Based on ‘Stop all the Clocks’ by W.H. Auden Stop the traffic lights, turn off the iPhone, Stop the labradoodle from barking with a plastic bone. Silence the nightclubs and with a bass drum, Bring out the flags, let the tears come. Let keyboards tap, give an ache to every head, Scribbling on facebook the […]

From ‘Autumn’ by T. Hood I saw old landlord in the misty gloaming Stand shadowless like science, listening To science, for no lonely radio would sing Into his hollow beer from ceilings forlorn, Nor lowly shopping bag nor solitary pub;- Shaking his languid crocs all dewy bright With tangled briefcases that fell by twilight, Pearling […]

after Sylvia Plath A Sestina for the Final Frontier Rocketeer, the physicists once wondered how you Came to be lying on the rocky ground above the heavens Sculpted in aluminium, under the eye Of chirping stars and a tropical moon, Set in intricate wilderness of grey Dome-shaped holes, like elephant prints, and tribes Of monstrous […]