Ian Badcoe Poetry

The fog being what it is... ...the bellman comes and tolls his bell. His creaks tread up the outside stairs. The last few drunks lurch up fr...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Is this about feminism?  I don't know. I don't like to be political.  It comes from having been brought up in science fiction an...

A Numbers Station is a Cold War artefact.  A weird short-wave radio station that transmits nothing but some distinctive sounds (often low...

  Not exactly about David Bowie.  Not exactly not about David Bowie either. If we've learned anything, it is: embrace the amb...

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...

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

A neat whisky, later this evening A relatively recent one here, as recent as this time last year, give or take... I have garnered the ...

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...

Jesse James, late of the nineteenth century I was on a poetry course, and we were given a paragraph or two about Jesse James and asked ...

A Theta-Ray, earlier today... This dates from 2011, I cannot recall just what I was thinking when I wrote it... One thing here is to s...

A villainess, earlier today A villanelle whose subject was simply inspired by the similarity between the words "villanelle" ...

A spy, earlier to today... An old one to kick us off.  I've always had quite fond memories of this one, plus I was watching James B...