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 ...

Alternative Forms of Government (an occasional series) Number 4 QuizShocracy Tony and Linda, you played your Joker but you haven...

Why I have weaponized the thistledown Awake the pollen grains and log each tiny particle gone with the wind onto our most secure of...

The tiniest of details... A cosmic ray strikes Abby's brain as she sleeps beneath her winter-cold duvet and when she awakes, a tin...

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

You have to imagine that the bits like this etc are informational signs with peeling paint on the walls in a disused hospital. Signs an...

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

There's prompts for each day this month coming in from all sorts of sources.  This one was on Poet's Graves : "Vessel Poem: ...

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...

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

Our correspondent interviews the famously private poet Question: You have before said, which is to say that people quote you expressing ...

As you may know, I'm something of a fan of Nordic Noire dramas. Not an fanatical fan.  I'm not the type who can obsesses about a...

Another oldie, this time from 2010. This is an attempt to talk about raw experience at its most fundamental level.  How can I know that...