Ian Badcoe Poetry

(I have not skipped a couple, I kept them private because they fell out kinda personal...) Taking it under advisement the first rule of deal...

I won't post this poem's text, because it has fancy formatting, and also is available here:  Streetcake Magazine, Issue 51 - part 1 ...

  An ontology of everything (excerpt) the wind; the wind in rushes; the wind in rushes at low to moderate speed; the wind; the wind in corn;...

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

I've not posted enough this year. But I did post during NoPoWriMo and one of the poems was There's very much a multiverse  - a c...

I've tagged this with my LGBTQ  tag, which I have created to collect together this important category of poems.  There aren't enou...

This is a Google Translate + Erasure poem left over from a course on Japanese subcultures that I did some years back. Actually not pure ...

Warning labels May be acerbic.  May mock.  May experience emotions not so easily described.  Grumpiness can happen.  May want to help and ...

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....

A sonnet on the subject of: "quit", "exit", "farewell", "give up", "depart", "parti...

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...

Click to see full-sized original Edit : Jenn Zed has kindly created a new image to illustrate this poem.  I've cropped it and scale...

The guide to nine utopias IX -- Traditional Lisa is embarrassed; she sat down on the snide receptionist who was hunting for somethi...

The guide to nine utopias VI -- Technological PROTOCOL HELLO from all of us at central-server-slash-breakfast-dot-show: it's T-...

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...

I went to a writing workshop, some years back now.  One of the exercises was to watch a "British Transport Film" similar if not id...

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

The challenge here was to write a poem that used repetition... but I wrote a poem about repetition.  I'm tricksy that way... modern l...

From a prompt to write a portrait of somebody important to you... A cricket ball at seventy... ...diving for it like a teen, but even...

There's a certain formalism in these things When she is willing, or even keen, she strips the flowers from her hat and scatters them...