Michael.Blackburn.Poet.

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Oct 1st

Every day is International Blasphemy Day in our house - http://tinyurl.com/mtbho3

Sep 30th

198

truly flux flume flow a hand that trembles when the arm is at rest erosion of sinew and...

Sep 29th

197

I hate bears and lions oh no you can’t say that I hear the righteous animal brigade those same...

Sep 28th

Governed by cretins - Ofsted issues childminding threat. ( http://bit.ly/44Wb3P )

Sep 28th

196

Roy’s tale the tall guard folded your visa into his pocket you chased him down the train in your...

Sep 27th

Mandelson - Whore: I would work for the Tories ( http://bit.ly/imx2w )

Sep 27th

195

a growing soreness in the throat glycerine, honey and ipecacuana a tale from childhood ipecac...

Sep 26th

Poem ‘Flight to Arras’ now available as podcast at http://tinyurl.com/4zhrga

Sep 26th

Just uploaded a recording of Flight to Arras on Podomatic - http://sunkisland.podomatic.com

Sep 26th

They call the Venus Fly Trap ‘Gnasher’.

Sep 26th

Nasty, brutish and short - that’s what my cold is proving to be.

Sep 26th

194

a cloud of red dust obscures the other side of the river the cats come in with orange paws we...

Sep 25th

Sign online petition demanding Gordon Brown sack Baroness Scotland for breaking the law -...

Sep 25th

193

How lucky for Scotland she’s a New Labour whore: she can stay in her job though she’s broken the...

Sep 24th

just voted “Unequivacally Out” on “Should the UK stay in the EU?” vote too ➔...

Sep 24th

Throat still rough. Time for a DRINK!

Sep 24th

My throat is feeling slightly sore.

Sep 24th

192

too much nostalgia listening to old songs you could always borrow someone else’s memories...

Sep 23rd

Another frabjous day! Not only do I have my Monster Olson Collected but I have found my sheet of...

Sep 23rd

191

fields now surrendered to pasture and transient pools I wonder what it must be like to be that...

Sep 22nd

soon be ready for a swift half

Sep 22nd

Fabulous! Olson’s Collected Poems arrived at last through two postal services.

Sep 22nd

Lost my sheet of ISBNs.

Sep 21st

190

nobody knows anything get ready to pack your bags

Sep 21st

A poem sequence with a link to an online recording. http://bit.ly/13OzWM

Sep 20th

He now has a white belt in kickboxing. I better be careful what I say.

Sep 20th

189

there’s not nothing I learn that from tv next door’s clock striking the hours ...

Sep 20th

He’s practising his kickboxing prior to us going to Bardney for his white belt grading.

Sep 20th

about to enter the Dreamtime…night, night

Sep 19th

188

surely we have so much to fear scenes of butchery and fish-killing strong language and flash...

Sep 19th

Lost Vampire Movies poem sequence now up on Scribd. http://tinyurl.com/ms3akk #poetry #poems

Sep 19th

187

I’ve come in mufti I said Persian he replied from a word meaning free (this happens all the...

Sep 18th

Poem sourced from Flight to Arras, a novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. http://bit.ly/20SWkW

Sep 18th

Wanderings in Arabia Deserta by Charles Doughty. Even abridged it’s a big tome.

Sep 18th

186

ah yes, that giant’s corpse washed up on our cold shore prodded, pushed, abandoned by the...

Sep 17th

The Brixton Pound - we could have one for Lincolnshire, the Yellowbelly Pound. ( http://bit.ly/5agL2...

Sep 17th

Just cleaned out sink u-bend and associated ouflow pipe.

Sep 17th

Duchamp and everything.

Sep 16th

185

im mh work work work work work dead

Sep 16th

I just published Black Swan of Trespass to Scribd http://bit.ly/3dHnkN

Sep 16th

I just published The Dark Female to Scribd http://bit.ly/mtw2s

Sep 16th

going to be inducting some postgrads today and it’s perfectly legal

Sep 16th

184

reading these old anthologies I wonder what became of so many who wrote so well pulped into...

Sep 15th

183

RIP Timothy Treadwell it’s eat, fuck & kill out there that’s the law if you mess...

Sep 14th

The visual migraine is very pretty but a damned nuisance while it lasts.

Sep 14th

Those Wagners are a dysfunctional lot.

Sep 13th

182

can we out of this confusion back-speaking and stammering make something solid and full of shape?...

Sep 13th

Harvesting great ideas of creative writing classes.

Sep 13th

I meant ‘for’, not ‘of’, but that’s what happens when you tweet too...

Sep 13th

181

you deserve many bombs and bullets if I could turn you into smoke I’d do it right now

Sep 12th

Government by Cretins #3065: we are not to be trusted with kids - Independent Safeguarding Authority...

Sep 12th

180

suburban ennui or rustic randomness? just say x marks the spot where you stop a while and watch...

Sep 11th

Bloody laptop that’s been unusable for two years is now charging up and working perfectly OK.

Sep 11th

I know the sun is shining but I’m going to have to go and lie down.

Sep 11th

Who’s slowing slowing the internet down today?

Sep 11th

179

P95 these little tableaux p97 detective, psychologist and painter p101 puts his foot in it p121...

Sep 10th

I just published Saturday Night at the Crown Posada to Scribd http://bit.ly/13LXjQ

Sep 10th

Blokes are here to trim the hedges and stuff. Still haven’t had my moat cleared, though.

Sep 10th

Now the hedge folk have gone I’ll call in the planes to spray weed and feed on the rest of the...

Sep 10th

Given up trying to watch Lester’s ‘Help!’ - such unutterable shite.

Sep 9th

178

he’s back with a long wistful look in his eyes from his weekend at camp sings me the songs...

Sep 9th

http://twitpic.com/h29rc - Happy Birthday, Malcolm X? In Worcester, UK?

Sep 9th

http://twitpic.com/h299p - Information overload.

Sep 9th

177

tractor music lapwings and marsh harriers for a moment all I can hear is the wind through these...

Sep 8th

Just stepped outside - gorgeous, smells like a farmyard. Sound of an electric hedge cutter out of...

Sep 7th

176

put your hands together for the last of the Horse Wars 4,500 horses planned for the first assault...

Sep 7th

I just published Storm to Scribd http://bit.ly/xE6w6

Sep 6th

I’ve started putting my own work up on Scribd - http://tinyurl.com/ms3akk - starting with The...

Sep 6th

and a new poem (#175) from the curent poem-a-day sequence is up on Tumblr -...

Sep 6th

175

across these landscapes in many media Italian hilltop villages vineyards in the Dordogne I see...

Sep 6th

Off out now to forage in the wilds of Lincolnshire.

Sep 6th

staggering through the wonderfulness that is Ubuweb

Sep 5th

time to start digging up the old raspberry canes

Sep 5th

174

the wind is up, the rain comes down all in the dark outside the wind makes the loudest noise...

Sep 5th

Australia’s internet goes down for an hour. One ISP, that’s bad news. (...

Sep 4th

The goldfish died yesterday. Or perhaps it was the day before.

Sep 3rd

Garage cleaning duty this morning.

Sep 1st

Wife enters bathroom. Screams enormously. Bloody spider. Big one. And I mean a big fucker.

Sep 1st

Re: lightbulbs and BBC: nobody asking why we’re told told what we can have, no choice, no...

Sep 1st

Thunder starts.

Sep 1st