Saying goodbye

It’s a funny feeling, almost new each time I experience it, an anticipation of loss that is somehow fresh and … More

Lifesaving Poems: Stuart Pickford’s ‘The Curtain Falls’

The Curtain Falls Suddenly a life is over – Ends with such serious charades The Dean makes lame quips … More

As promised last week, here is my presentation of the paper I co-wrote with Sue Dymoke in which we argue on … More

‘Even the poetic world is social’ (Bakhtin, 1981, 300). This time next week, Saturday 23 June, I will be presenting … More

One of the central influences on my life is not a poet in the usual sense of the word, … More

Towards the end of my treatment for cancer in 2006 I had one of the most profound conversations of … More

I went home the other day. I mean home-home, where I was born, and where my parents still live. … More

These are some of the things I have learned during the recent industrial action taken by my union, the UCU, … More

from Cats and a Cock We walk the streets of the dark city, placards at back light in our heads, … More

One of the most inspiring things about being involved in the UCU USS pensions strike has been the outpouring of … More

Five Minutes Of Work 4.23.2009 Attending the PMDS workshop today a 46-page page performance document to be discussed in … More

Monday: people are starting to recognise each other on my picket line. They exchange news of how the strike is … More

Try to Praise the Mutilated World Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops … More

The Way Things Work is by admitting or opening away. This is the simplest form of current: Blue moving … More

Things I Learned at University How to bike on cobblestones and where to signal right. How to walk through doors … More

A passerby comes up to my group and hands us a brown paper bag. ‘It’s full of flat whites,’ she … More

Invisible Work Because no one could ever praise me enough, because I don’t mean these poems only but the unseen … More

What Work Is We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You … More