Ian Badcoe Poetry

A bit of a cheat here, this was originally the first song that I wrote for my collaboration with Hallam London  but he didn't feel com...

It's bloody hot, so I'm just going to query whether we actually need the word "exoplanet" and get on with the poem (whic...

And so we come to relativity, relativity and a woman. The title of this seems less than feminist, fortunately (or rather by design) the ...

"Space, is big..." says The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and then it goes on to give some stunningly bad advice about h...

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...

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

We went on holiday to stomp around our old stomping grounds near Bristol and Bath. And we took advantage of being there to visit a few p...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A poem inspired by a prompt from a Facebook poetry group. This is a pantoum.  I like pantoums, but they are a very particular thing and ...

In the words Terry Pratchett gave to Sergeant Colon and Nobby Nobbs, as they balanced on the roof of the distillery with the dragon bea...

This poem comes from two places.  Firstly the idea that a person, internally, is a sort of world of their very own where their own normali...