The Balloon Landings
'But Daddy, where do all the dead balloons go?' Based on an article I came across in a newspaper. We should be knee deep in dead balloons! But there is always a 'but'. A poem or story with a bit of...
View ArticleThe Taxi Man & The Drunk
Working in a bookshop is great for people watching. This poem/story/sonic tinkering is based on a particular customer who used to pull up outside in his cab, order a couple of books and say, just put...
View ArticleMr Cockroach
"Ugh, cockroaches!" might be your first line of thought. But I reckon Mr C. is a tale of triumph and hope, it just happens to use a very unpopular and much maligned insect as a theme. It all begins...
View ArticleTree
'Tree' was inspired by a poster of a tree I had on my office wall for years before I noticed an eye looking down among the branches. Then I began spotting other things and realised how little we do...
View ArticleThe Staple Question
"A country is held together with rusty staples and sticky tape..." A sort of protest song/poem/sonic tinkering involving stationery items. And, yes, that really is me playing the funky lead stapler.
View ArticleGlances
I've had the most wonderful moment he later tells a friend who shrugs: You saw a bird fly from a tree This poem/sonic tinkering could be a warning against absently glancing out of the window - you just...
View ArticleLemon Tree Three Feet High To Be Carried Across London
I came across a man sat on a train with a lemon tree on the table in front of him. The tree had one fully grown lemon on its branches and as the train made its way to London, I began to worry about the...
View ArticleThe Jimmy James Manlow Show
Jimmy James Manlow is the south coast's leading podcaster. A poet and novelist and also a former child star - JJM was the Milky Bar Kid in the mid-1980s - in the 21st century Jimmy James has reinvented...
View ArticleThe Balloon Landings
'But Daddy, where do all the dead balloons go?' Based on an article I came across in a newspaper. We should be knee deep in dead balloons! But there is always a 'but'. A poem or story with a bit of...
View ArticleThe Taxi Man & The Drunk
Working in a bookshop is great for people watching. This poem/story/sonic tinkering is based on a particular customer who used to pull up outside in his cab, order a couple of books and say, just put...
View ArticleMr Cockroach
"Ugh, cockroaches!" might be your first line of thought. But I reckon Mr C. is a tale of triumph and hope, it just happens to use a very unpopular and much maligned insect as a theme. It all begins...
View ArticleTree
'Tree' was inspired by a poster of a tree I had on my office wall for years before I noticed an eye looking down among the branches. Then I began spotting other things and realised how little we do...
View ArticleThe Staple Question
"A country is held together with rusty staples and sticky tape..." A sort of protest song/poem/sonic tinkering involving stationery items. And, yes, that really is me playing the funky lead stapler.
View ArticleGlances
I've had the most wonderful moment he later tells a friend who shrugs: You saw a bird fly from a tree This poem/sonic tinkering could be a warning against absently glancing out of the window - you just...
View ArticleLemon Tree Three Feet High To Be Carried Across London
I came across a man sat on a train with a lemon tree on the table in front of him. The tree had one fully grown lemon on its branches and as the train made its way to London, I began to worry about the...
View ArticleThe Jimmy James Manlow Show
Jimmy James Manlow is the south coast's leading podcaster. A poet and novelist and also a former child star - JJM was the Milky Bar Kid in the mid-1980s - in the 21st century Jimmy James has reinvented...
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