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An extract from ‘Tulsa’

“I’d like to know you naked, so I could better understand you dressed / Clothes get between us, hiding what’s behind your eyes and mine,” I write, in a poem named Tulsa.

These lines perfectly reflect the tone of a collection of poetry that exposes my poetic side, revealing far more than nakedness could.

Elon Musk, on “Lords and Peasants”

We’re talking about unions here, and the right to organize. Musk has been quoted as saying, “I just don’t like anything which creates a lords and peasants sort of thing. I think the unions naturally try to create negativity in a company.” Which is a really strange...

ChatGPT and the future of writing

Yeah well, the news is full of robots taking over the world and will the next great novel be written by artificial intelligence. Seems to me the future is written into the name. Are we willing to settle for 'artificial' intelligence when what we actually want is the...

There Was a Time I Wrote Poetry…

There was a time I wrote poetry. Then it turned itself off and prose returned. If you write, have you ever had that happen? I’m not really even a fan of poetry and rarely read it for pleasure. And yet for probably a year and a half it simply came to me on a tram, or...

The Dark Side of the Moon: vol. 2

Volume 2 of The Dark Side of the Moon moves from Howard Dean’s ‘excellent chance of becoming the next president of the United States’ to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the evisceration of Medicaid and the exposure of the Jack Abramoff scandal. But what else was...