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| Type | Title | Author | Replies | Last updated |
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| Story | Luton Revisited (After John Hegley) | ralph | 0 | 4 weeks 21 hours ago |
| Story | Ascensions | ralph | 3 | 1 month 3 weeks ago |
| Forum topic | ACT! A Poem for Basildon | ralph | 3 | 2 months 2 hours ago |
| Story | Act! A Poem for Basildon | ralph | 10 | 3 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Moon Over Armley | ralph | 4 | 3 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | The Darlings | ralph | 1 | 4 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Daddy Long Legs | ralph | 1 | 4 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Record | ralph | 3 | 6 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Geese | ralph | 11 | 7 months 18 hours ago |
| Story | Tide | ralph | 4 | 7 months 3 days ago |
| Story | Raymond | ralph | 3 | 7 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Jumping Trains | ralph | 6 | 10 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | House | ralph | 2 | 1 year 1 week ago |
| Story | Shame | ralph | 8 | 1 year 1 month ago |
| Story | There is Still Time | ralph | 4 | 1 year 2 months ago |
| Story | Friday Night was Biscuit Night | ralph | 1 | 1 year 2 months ago |
| Story | When I Was Flush | ralph | 0 | 1 year 2 months ago |
| Forum topic | Northern Gravy Live at Home with Toria Garbutt and Roy | ralph | 0 | 1 year 2 months ago |
| Story | Any Old Jerusalem | ralph | 10 | 1 year 3 months ago |
| Story | Friday Night at Zhivago’s | ralph | 0 | 1 year 3 months ago |
| Story | Brass | ralph | 2 | 1 year 3 months ago |
| Story | The January Rebellion | ralph | 1 | 1 year 3 months ago |
| Story | Hope Revisited | ralph | 2 | 1 year 4 months ago |
| Story | Hope's Eve | ralph | 4 | 1 year 4 months ago |
| Story | Mexico 1970 | ralph | 7 | 1 year 4 months ago |
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Luton Revisited (After John Hegley)
Many years ago, John Hegley wrote a seismic political poem about class and mobility for his home town of Luton. It still shocks today. You can hear...
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Ascensions
Ascensions No finger on it. The colour, the grey area i nsipid in other circumstances. Here, the light glows as if a search. A treasure sunk — swept...
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Moon Over Armley
Moon Over Armley An angry cloud converses with the lunar. The sixpence sphere will always rise above. In Armley prison darkness arrives sooner. A...
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Act! A Poem for Basildon
Act! Looking from the window above, like a story of love. Can you hear me? — Yazoo, Only You. 1982 I'm lonely here. There are no poets here. Oh yes,...
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The Darlings
The Darlings So, I was seeing this woman for a while who was in and out of the music business. She once married a man who was in a band who will...
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Notes on the poem
Posted on Thu, 30 Mar 2023
Thank you so much for your kind words about this poem.
Read full commentThe poem was written over an extended period of time and was the start of a deep personal change for me. It’s complicated. The poem was due to be an international commission...
Posted in Shame
No
Posted on Sat, 28 Oct 2023
No.
He is saying sorry for his crimes. I work in prisons teaching serious offenders creative writing.
Thanks
Ralph
Read full commentPosted in Record
Thank you!
Posted on Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Thank you, means a lot. I read this tonight at an event in Bradford.
Read full commentPosted in Geese
Excellent. I'll definitely
Posted on Mon, 14 Oct 2019
Excellent. I'll definitely come. Thank you. I'll email ABCTales.
Read full commentPosted in Serotonin Rag
I think Hank would have liked
Posted on Tue, 15 Apr 2014
I think Hank would have liked that...
Read full commentPosted in Shut Your Mouth Bukowski!