(First published as ‘Series of dreams’ in the book ‘Encounters with Bob Dylan. If you see him, say hello‘, edited by Tracy Johnson and published in 1999 by humble press, San Francisco) If you see him …. leave him be The Isle of Wight 1969, the Royal Albert Hall 1966, Bournemouth Folk Club 1963, I Read the full article…
(This poem was Commended in the 1989 Open University Poetry Competition and subsequently published the same year in Orbis) Purchase on renewal I broke the structure of our friendship last November, Arriving one night, agitated beyond the protocol of our acquaintance, Since then we have tested the shell of personal fragility With supposition, jokes and Read the full article…
… Then we had turned and were heading east, it felt very tangible, like forcibly resetting the internal compass. Taking the edge of the cliff top track we were rewarded by a continually shifting sense of exposure while the landscape and a mighty sea slugged it out like heavyweights, each meeting the other’s blunt force, Read the full article…