whether surreal or naturalistic, bitter or sweet, dance or poem, artists and their creations make life better. Art of itself is a statement against globalisation. To create something original is a statement against globalisation. And to view it, to seek it out, is to be a part of that Read more [...]

I find myself in the position of the radical deflated balloon. And we all know what the head teacher said to the radical deflated balloon. The headteacher said “you’ve let me down, you’ve let yourself down and you’ve let the whole school down”. All I could think was, what a title - The title of this article, of the email is be the title of the poem. Read more [...]

As the wildlife expert said to the chameleon “you’ve changed”. Read more [...]

This website is the best example of how poetry can be presented on the world wide webble that I have seen so far. The poets name is Kwame Dawes who spent some time in residence at a hospital in Jamaica http://www.livehopelove.com Read more [...]

One of Massive Attacks choices for Meltdown at The South bank later this year was Gil Scot Heron. Read more [...]

The drumming stops dramatically. Pah Pah Da Dah Pah! The police partand the torch comes through in the hands of the minute Vanessa mae. It's so close I could touch it. Just as I have that thought one of the chinese securioty guards spies me. "The torch is slightly bigger than she is " said one drummer to another. Read more [...]

(London, April 4, 2008) – In welcoming the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay outside 10 Downing Street, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is sending the Chinese government exactly the wrong message on its ongoing crackdown in Tibet and on human rights advocates in China, Human Rights Watch said today. Read more [...]

I wrote the lyrics to a song called “In The Name of The Torch”. On Sunday hundreds of singers will be outside of The Royal Festival Hall on the banks of the Thames River as The Olympic Torch makes its way through and onwards to 10 Downing Street. Read more [...]

All three of these would qualify because Shakespeare, Nick Cave and Zaidi Smith all have poetry in their work. That’s the tip of the iceberg. The finance worker who writes poems, The Poetry Library which gets every copy of every book of poetry published in England, the security guard who writes poetry: all of these qualify for the long list. Read more [...]

Saw Mr Martin Luther King Junior speak today, in the ballroom at The South bank. Read more [...]