Ian Badcoe Poetry

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 ...

  Unmake Undo; undo; undo; unspin the planet; undawn the day; unturn the season; unproduce the play; unsing all songs, we're out of time...

  New, improved model army Infantry Drill Regulations This manual covers a wide range of basic standards for the infantry. Topics covered in...

A brief future history of dooms ironically unforetold "I was from my mother's womb / Untimely ripped" -- Macduff to Macbeth, i...

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...

corner case theologies there is no rule that all gods must make sense there's believing and there is belief don't ask what ...

Contrary to previous reports... ...the revolution is being televised. Sue has two leading revolutionaries on the sofa; and in a while, ...

The challenge here was a poem about a closed door.  I've taken that figuratively again.  The real door in this poem is glass and the cha...

The challenge was to write a nine line poem and some examples of form were given.  I've never written a nocturna before, it's nine l...

From a prompt to write a portrait of somebody important to you... A cricket ball at seventy... ...diving for it like a teen, but even...

I've got stalled on this year's NaPoWriMo, I think because I'm still really tired following Rosemary's book launch on Thur...

Last night I finally watched a BBC program on the War Poets that I recorded in June.  It focussed not just on their poetry, but also on t...

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'...

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...