Speedo Swagger: When Jogging Became a Free Spectator Sport
Speedo Swagger A light-hearted story set around Ancoats Marina, exploring double standards,…
Musing on Life During a Strange Afternoon at Lock 81
28 April 2025
Musing on Life During a Strange Afternoon at Lock 81
Musing on Life A strange and reflective afternoon by the canal, where…
Tea, Tariffs, and a Painful Manifest Destiny
11 March 2025
Tea, Tariffs, and a Painful Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny A satirical dialogue about American exceptionalism, empire and cultural influence.…
Ba’al vs YHWH: Lost in Translation
11 October 2024
Ba’al vs YHWH: Lost in Translation
Ba’al vs YHWH A retelling of Elijah at Mount Carmel that reimagines…
City Boy Lost in Nature
28 August 2024
City Boy Lost in Nature
City Boy Lost in Nature A prose journey from the urban landscape…
Cornershop 4: Epic: Can’t You Smell Your Batty Bruv?
21 December 2023
Cornershop 4: Epic: Can’t You Smell Your Batty Bruv?
Cornershop 4 A strange and comic street encounter outside the cornershop, where…
Africanistan Epic: The Ultimate War on Terror
4 October 2023
Africanistan Epic: The Ultimate War on Terror
Africanistan Epic This epic poem traces Africa's turbulent journey from colonial partition…
Cornershop 3: Sunday Morning, Guinness & A Headline Surprise
Cornershop 3 A brief pandemic-era encounter in an Ancoats corner shop, where…
Cornershop 2: Clash of Cultures and Tense Encounter
31 January 2021
Cornershop 2: Clash of Cultures and Tense Encounter
Cornershop 2 A tense, comic encounter in a corner shop during the…
hard times: the money comes then it flies
3 November 2020
hard times: the money comes then it flies
hard times A short poem about money coming and going, turning an…
New Islington Mystery: A Silent Tragedy In Ancoats
23 December 2019
New Islington Mystery: A Silent Tragedy In Ancoats
Along factory-lined Pollard Street East in Ancoats, just past the pretty little…
A Short Story: Woman’s World
3 May 2018
A Short Story: Woman’s World
In the branded supermarket, about to pick up the laundry detergent,
