Poems from Channel 4, BBC radio 4, BBC radio 5, etc
Not enough here for a book, let alone a Bloodaxe book of 56 pages. I liked "Mime doesn't pay" and "The breath within the balloon". Here are the other worthwhile bits -
- I leaflet therefore I am (about the Edinburgh festival, p.13)
- May your road maps never refold (p.22)
- Like most kids I suppose I was a natural surrealist.// I used to think nothing of playing football for hours in my cowboy outfit ... the British Eighth Army desert patrol Airfix soldiers would fight off the alien spaceship which was always made out of Lego and manned by Fuzzy-Felt farm animals (p.33)
- The reflection in the back of God's spoon (p.44)
- Last night I was burgled by a mime artist ... he tried to steal a piano I haven't got.// He pushed and he pulled, but it wouldn't move ("Mime doesn't pay", p.49)
- "The mutually assured destruction of Mr and Mrs Jones" (just the title, p.52)
- Buy World War One, get World War Two free (p.53)
- I have spent my whole life trying to enter the gates of Heaven using my heart as a battering ram (p.62)
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