Ian Badcoe Poetry

The Engine Subcommittee... ...meets, occasionally quorate, and every Thursday evening in the longtime beer spill backroom of the Dog ...

My scripted life Hi! I am #GIRLNAME, you may not recall but we met at that #EVENT and I just love to share sweet pictures of myself....

No-one understands, even as it is explained. When you say things aren't as they appear , he thinks he understands, nods  a...

Earth-like planets... ...where the hanging moment of morning finds cloud unbound and the song moves on. Where she sang that song, the ...

Considering the Kardashev scale A Type I civilization —also called a planetary civilization—can use and store all of the energy which r...

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

Walking to Alpha Centauri This is not exactly a Christmas track, but Hallam  and I have not released anything for a while.  We j...

(Dedicated to Brenda Levy Tate) My favourite of Brenda's recent photos this has everything:  a galaxy, a self-portrait, an out...

Firmness, commodity and delight... ...was how Vitruvius put it, meaning buildings should not fall apart, be useful, and be easy on ...

Engineering ...come with me for there is much to do, coils to degauss and pets to delouse and exoplanets to scope and spectra to analy...

Vampire Calculus Begin program "Vampire Calculus" { I shall bite your daughters into something else. I shall bite your son...

Offline processing This poem existed as only the opening line for a long time...  I knew how I wanted it to feel, but not what I wanted...

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...

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

The (alternative) prompt I followed for this was "a place you've never been". Cassini was an Italian "mathematician,...

A bit of an experiment this time.  I wrote this as a performance piece and the words are, frankly, ugly laid out on the page. Which doesn...

Future Technology #1 (or The Shape of Things to Come) Future technology, earlier today Civilisation, back in the '90s ...

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

Another one written from a prompt on a course. To my mind this is pure science fiction: uncontaminated by plot or character or spaceship...

Geek sensibilities, earlier today Geeks are, of course, the sub-set of nerds who can realistically be hired and set to work with  norma...