My work has always been about memory, history, nostalgia. About family. About places, and how we are connected to them. About conversations, and stories, and little stolen snatches of narrative. About being British, connected to the South Coast, about an ...Read More
This was commissioned by the Worthing Herald for National Poetry Day; I'd marked the previous National Poetry Day by being poet in residence, writing poems about the week's news. This poem was supposed to celebrate the way that the paper ...Read More
Originally written for the Worthing Community website - this comprehensive Tank Girl biog was the site's most popular page, so when that site was lost I moved it to my old blog, I Hate Dan Thompson, where it's had 37,695 ...Read More
Within minutes of being declared MP for Worthing West, old-school Tory Peter Bottomley was engaging in nasty, old fashioned political squabbling and point scoring. Whatever happens nationally, it seems it's no change at Haverfield House, Worthing's Tory HQ which (on ...Read More
I spend a lot of time thinking about regeneration. It's a creative process, turning failing towns into interesting places, and I like creative processes. So like every other one, whether it's drawing or performing poetry or presenting to a film ...Read More
I'm watching Twitter as the election unfolds. Already there are stories of voters being turned away from Polling Stations that have been unable to handle the sheer size of the crowds turning out. The BBC are saying the places counting ...Read More
It's been an exciting few weeks for British politics. After a few years in which a low, dirty Labour party have dragged British politics to new depths (not listening to a million anti-war marchers, shaping legislation around the needs of ...Read More
You might notice I have an interest in place, in navigation, in the routes we take from one thing to another. While it usually takes a more serious tone, here's another new poem, just written to play with the descriptive ...Read More
Here's a short poem, from a batch of loose, scruffy and ragtag ideas I've been playing with lately. I've tried a couple out in public and they've gone down well... I may give them all a haircut and a shave ...Read More
"Carlisle's all about edges, borders, the delineation of one thing and another. It's on the edge of England, or maybe the edge of Scotland. It's a border town, a frontier place, a fringe; the edge of every empire that the ...Read More
