Ian Badcoe Poetry

  And as she... ...starts to sprint she pulls her self, one foot sticking slightly, out of time -- the external world slowing between one fo...

Safeguarding the chain of evidence The police has started putting crime scene tape round places where no crime has ever been. It's...

When there's a murder in an old, old movie... Please try to keep sand off the body! The SOCO shouts for the seventeenth time. Ho...

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...

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...

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...

A risky proposition, earlier today I went to a launch event for Deadly, Delicate by Kate Garrett, who I'd never met before but who...

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...

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...

It's good to have a hobby.  It's good to have an interest.  An over whelming passion can be a good thing too. Then there's th...

The elephant declined to comment... Who doesn't like the circus?   (...or "socially inclusive, family oriented, non-animal...

Funny isn't that easy to do in poetry, and sometimes isn't productive.  Amusing is easier to achieve, and I think less likely to g...