Category Archives: Brazil

Slide Shows and Videos on YouTube

Click on my YouTube Channel Link It takes you to several performance art videos and videos of the slideshows I made a few years ago – many drawn with the eyes closed. There are also slideshows which accompany readings and … Continue reading

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Three Heat Poems

TROPICAL TOPIC x The fan is the centre of my universe. I ask, Does cold air fall? I am baking from the feet up. Amid giant retorts The God of Heat experiments. x This weather’s great If you’re cold-blooded, Soaking … 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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THE RUNIAD – Books 1 to 23 – (Now completed – 24)

Books 1 to 24 (now) of my (now completed) epic poem can now be read on this Heyzine link I suggest expanding the image and turning off the sound of a page-turn. Click the bottom right corner of the page … 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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80th birthday in Brazil with George Tijani and the kids

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More Drawings from Brazil

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