Category Archives: art

Earth Day 2025 – Kristian Evans and Nathan Roach

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPkBj7X1dfQ A Film by Kristian Evans & Nathan Roach This is one of the best poem/films I have come across. It often uses a constant moving image (reeds moving, waves breaking etc) which I have always found the ideal backdrop … Continue reading

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Gaza

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From Book 7 of The Runiad

x At a time when St. Francis was staying in the town of Gubbio, There appeared in that region a wolf so maddened by lack of a meal It took to devouring humans as well as beasts in the wild. … Continue reading

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Memories of an Island

Memories of a idyllic island on the Green Coast of Brazil. X ….Things that prefer to be hidden from us, without the effrontery Of the small seven-coloured birds that flit through the quiet, Perch for a sec on a branch … Continue reading

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Rio, back in 2012

Here is a Youtube slideshow It’s a slideshow of paintings I made in Rio in 2012, when I escaped the London winter to spend summer in Brazil. Below are some poems I wrote at the time: x TRISTEZA x That … Continue reading

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Capoeira

x x x x x Capoeira drawings from 2012.

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The Island off the Green Coast

x x x x And to this post I am now adding a section from Book 23 of my poem The Runiad: x Now here seems far away from the pressing urgency Experienced in the West. Sure it’s an illusion, … Continue reading

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Seen in the Park, Catete, Rio de Janeiro

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More Drawings from Brazil

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Vista

x Each of us pursues a path, each ant has its very own Destination. However, in my opinion, poetry’s been ruined by An excess of thought: thought that sneers at action and Reduces observation to a metaphor crawling across the … Continue reading

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