Ian Badcoe Poetry

Fresh orange I - Orange is an emergency services colour, and here in the soft drinks aisle of twenty-four hour Tescos and three a.m., that ...

To celebrate the appearance of my poem TINAG in  Selcouth Station  here is a recording of me reading it, with a few virtual co-conspirators ...

We went to a talk on liquids.  It was by a guy who had written a popular science book on the same subject.  He was an entertaining speake...

I've not posted enough this year. But I did post during NoPoWriMo and one of the poems was There's very much a multiverse  - a c...

Art is about learning to ask the right questions "Put Holden on it, he's good."         —  the original Blade Runner...

This is the epiphany room... ...it has to be furnished in this way for you and at this time.  Do not attempt to turn on the light, d...

Marrie Lightman suggested an irrational robot prompt , well this is irrational, and it has a robot in there somewhere... The day science...

The official prompt for this day was a double elevener, which didn't grab me.  One of the alternative prompts I'm following said: ...

I went to a writing workshop, some years back now.  One of the exercises was to watch a "British Transport Film" similar if not id...

The prompt was to retell a creation myth. First time I've used "wang" or "tits" in a poem, but then your typical ...

When I put up my April 9th poem, I was only a few days late, and I was very pleased because I'd nearly caught up with the alleged one pe...

The challenge here was to write a poem that used repetition... but I wrote a poem about repetition.  I'm tricksy that way... modern l...

You need to have a plan You need to have a plan and its first part must say the cutting edge of the state of the art can't hold a can...

Where this comes from is a certain class of book where the title is simply the description of a character.  You get these for children...

This is a poem about dementia, which isn't something which has badly impacted me in my life.  Yet... (My Nan had it, but I wasn'...

I had an evening out with some people I used to work with... ...who are all still mostly more embroiled with large corporations than I a...

In the words Terry Pratchett gave to Sergeant Colon and Nobby Nobbs, as they balanced on the roof of the distillery with the dragon bea...

Honesty is, of course, important. It is possible I haven't been entirely frank with you. You're not ready for the tr...