Ian Badcoe Poetry

Reference works So... Edward finally has the book.  It came in Amazon's robust brown cardboard packaging and the woman who live...

Paul Brookes is a poet I know through the internet.  We used to hang out on Poetry Circle, an online forum... Before I begin this revi...

The unfinished businessman makes his money doing business in inverted commas and the far-East, dealing with situations and anyone too...

New Muses for a Posthuman Age I follow a filk singer/songwriter called Dr Mary Crowell  and on her album:  Scattering ...

There are certain global roles which are more important than run of the mill A-list celebrities and international leaders. One of these ro...

This was recently on the front page of Poetry Circle which is a great poetry magazine/forum site with lots of active members and a lot of...

Not really following any prompt here, except there was a prompt about "space" which prompted me (sic) to look through my notes for...

The prompt here was a poem with overheard speech in it. Sonnet again.  It is my default setting when I do a form. Interestingly I have k...

The official prompt for today is a poem using the imagery of a sport or game. I'm not 100% this one works.  It's not using the ima...

This one languished for a long time as just the first strophe and the idea of releasing the mice.  However on the train yesterday it got i...

An old unfinished one I dug up and converted to electricity. Quite by coincidence this (almost) fits of the prompts I saw elsewhere for...

Blatant cheating now, this isn't one I wrote for the occasion, but one I've had half finished in the pile forever.  So I dusted it o...

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 one was written from a prompt during NaPoWriMo this year, I forget what the prompt was, put possibly something quite distant from wha...

These are the terms of the contract, they get: the money the adoration, power, glory, stalker the celebrity lifestyle, drugs, divorce m...

Uriah Heap who, had he known Mr Jethencorp, would not have presumed upon the acquaintance. Charles Dickens knew a thing or two! And ...

He Do the Police in Different Voices was T. S. Eliot's working title for The Wasteland.   Eliot was quoting Dickens: ...Sloppy is ...

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...

I found another poem that was inspired by David Bowie.  This time directly, as I wrote it while listening to The Man Who Sold the World o...