"You ask whether your verses are any good. You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you are upset when certain editors reject your work. Now I beg you to stop doing that sort of thing. You are looking outside, and that is what you should avoid most now....Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself wheth…
Well the Dutch were unceremoniously dumped out of the European Soccer Championships. I keep thinking about Amsterdam Coffeeshops. It's a Germany v Spain Final. I'm sat in a public library and they're having trouble with their printers. Public libraries. It's where I spend much of my time. The Central and the local branch. What I have noticed though is actually how noisy they have become. I feel like turning around to the librarians and shouting Sshhhh. They seem to have lost any …
I must be getting better because I no longer feel the need to write about my psychosis and jail time. I am supporting Holland in the European Soccer Finals and Congratulations on a great 3-0 win over Italy. As I don't have a TV I am catching footage in shop windows and eateries. What am I up to at the moment? I am working with a Theatre group for Mental Health Service Users here in Cardiff, UK which is very cathartic and liberating. We had our A.G.M last week and I turned to another member…
I have one true friend in prison and he goes by the name of Jimmy. He's a Scouser so he's as good as Welsh. I was brought up in a part of NorthWales which looked to Liverpool as its Capital City. Jimmy is a working class lad from the Liverpool that I knew as child.
Through the Mersey Tunnel and over to the city on the Birkenhead Ferry. Parking the car in Rock Ferry, you couldn't ignore the signs of Social Deprivation. Passing the walls of Camel Laird's shipyards, the public houses on…
Hi Michelle: I'm going to take some Blog space here to publicly thank you for sending me the book 'April 4th 1968 Martin Luther King Jr's death and how it changed America' by Michael Eric Dyson and Newspapers commemorating both The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr's Death and Coretta King's Death.
Your comments and supportive shouts and messages have vaildated my efforts to clear a path through my difficult past and now by this lovely generous gesture you have allowed me to see first ha…
