Poetry

• poppies

  'Blockade''Reinforcements'
• poppies

  'intoxicated'
• poppies

  'world overflowing like a treasure chest'
• Poppies

  'sellotape bandaged around my hand'
• Exposure

  'All their eyes are ice'
• Exposure

  'But nothing happens'
• Exposure

  'Slowly our ghosts drag home'
• Exposure

  'Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence'
• Exposure

  'merciless iced east winds that knive us'
• The Charge of the Light Brigade

  'someone had blunder'd'
• The charge of the light brigade

  'rode the six hundred'
• The charge of the light brigade

  'valley of death'
• The charge of the light brigade

  'all the world wonder'd'
• The charge of the light brigade

  'Honour the Light Brigade'
• The charge of the Light Brigade

  'Forward the Light Brigade!'
• Kamikaze

  'my father embarked at sunrise'
• Kamikaze


  'Dark shoals of fishes'
• Kamikaze


  'which had been a better way to die'
• Kamikaze


  'my mother never spoke again in his presence'
• Kamikaze

  'little fishing boats strung out like bunting'
• kamikaze

  'a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous'
• Storm on the Island

  'exploding comfortably'
• Storm on the island

  'spits like a tame cat turned savage'
• Storm on the island

  'pummels your house too'
• Storm on the island

  'air' 'feet'
• Storm on the island

  'strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear'
• The Prelude

  'heaving through the water like a swan'
• The Prelude

  'the grim shape'
• The Prelude

  'huge peak, black and huge'
• The prelude

  'small circles glittering idly in the moon'
• The prelude

  'I fixed my view upon the summit of a craggy ridge'
• War Photographer

  'between the bath and pre-lunch beers'
• War photgrapher

  'spools of suffering set out in ordered rows'
• War Photographer

  'a hundred agonies in black and white'
• War Photographer

  'faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost'
• Checking out me history

  'bandage up me own eye with me own history'
• Checking out me history

  'I carving out me own identity'
• Checking out me own identity

  'I checking out me own history'
• Checking out me own history

  'Dem tell me'
• Checking out me own history

  'Dem never tell me bout Nanny de maroon'