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Poltical Analysis
10 April 2020

A note on judgement in these critical times

Content warning – reference to colonial violence One thing to say is that this is a more gentle time of myself – in the span of my whole life – less thrusting, more stepped back, observant. It’s a period more characterised by uncertainty, speculation and creativity than other times where my energies have poured into community organising. Sometimes in the…
Film
9 January 2014

World War Z – the violent fear of the west

In general I don’t like watching horror films so I am unfamiliar with the genre. However I have heard that sometimes the undead that rise up out of the graveyard, immediately behind immaculate suburbia, represent the numb existence of middle England or the habitual drift of American mall shoppers. As someone who for some time went to school in the…
Poetry
1 October 2011

Jamaica

this year turning a warm wind blows over and I am reminded of the last when I lay on the grass catching scent of another ocean close shore seas an incredible temporality of wind opening my eye to determinedly hot sands interbound with roots of large leaved trees resilient to the storms that love an island & how completely it…
Poetry
1 June 2007

or will it be neither

buckles before laces and later, narrow fitting shoes for the girls efforts unavailed such continuation heaps down momentum of dull force accumulates no dissatisfactory metaphor our lives the abandoned textile mill will they knock it down or convert it into flats? or will it be neither tossed in some fearful encompassing graves rubble vast derelict oceans devoid of fish the…