Michael Blackburn
Lost Vampire Movies
from Michael Blackburn in Creative Writing, Poetry
A poem sequence with a link to an online recording. /
Flight to Arras
from Michael Blackburn in Creative Writing, Poetry
Poem sourced from Flight to Arras, a novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Listen to recording at http://sunkisland.podomatic.com
The Dark Female
from Michael Blackburn in Creative Writing, Poetry
The Dark Female, being six variations on part six of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching.
Black Swan of Trespass
from Michael Blackburn in Creative Writing, Short Stories
A collection of 20 metafictions.
The Seventh of July
from Michael Blackburn in Creative Writing, Poetry
A poem commemorating those murdered in the bombings in London, 7th July 2005.
Saturday Night at the Crown Posada
from Michael Blackburn in Creative Writing, Poetry
A poem written for a collaboration with international book artist, Les Bicknell in 1994, and exhibited at the University of Essex. / 'Blackburn's text is a perceptive and often very funny evocation of the layers of talk among the locals in a pub, delineating characters like a down-market version...
Storm
from Michael Blackburn in Creative Writing, Poetry
Storm, a poster-poem published in 2001 by Foolscap. Artwork by Judi Benson.
The Constitution of Things
from Michael Blackburn in Creative Writing, Poetry
My first collection, published by Northern House in 1984. 'Short, lucid poems in which the angle of vision is of particular importance. I enjoyed these poems in the way one would enjoy an exhibition of enigmatic line drawings...' - Anne Stevenson.
Let's Build A City
from Michael Blackburn in Creative Writing, Poetry
A poem sequence based on the autobiography of T Dan Smith and political corruption in the north-east of England in the 1960s.
Poet on Politics: Unholy Trinity
from Michael Blackburn in Creative Writing
An article for London Magazine (August/Sept 2009) on contemporary politics, looking at Mandelson, Brown and Blair. / 'The Poet on Politics this issue is Michael Blackburn, whose incendiary piece dissects the Thatcher legacy and her natural heirs, Labour’s Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Peter Mande...
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Saturday Night at the Crown Posada 132 Reads |
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