YouTube videos
A selection of poems from each published book have been made into video poems. These are hosted on my YouTube channel. The videos have been listed under the book in which the poem appears. In addition, there is a further book (Uncollected) which is in video form only. Again, the links are listed below. I hope that you enjoy the poems.
Click on the video poem that you wish to watch. This will take you to the video on YouTube.
Finchley Boy
Daydream
Reflections at a Coffee Shop (Internet Jockey)
Lazy Day
Unexpected Storm
Gossip
Hoodie in Costa
Rambling
Conversation with a Middle-Aged Man
Adventures in Backpacking
Raw Beauty
Listening to a Transistor Radio
Totally Unexpected
The London Plane
Memorial
Measuring in Garden Time
Fisherman at Prayer
Hot Summer, July 22
Lost Labours
A Late Cold Snap Scars the Young Acers
Ballards Labe 6 a.m. on a Cold Morning
Ancient Bigotry
Indentured
Damaged Tree at Victoria Park
Victoria Park in April
Two Nights at a Friend’s House
That Time in My Life Recalled
Priorities (Birdsong)
Regret
The Fox
Bush Radio
Empty Church
I Think I Dreamt of Butterflies Last Night
Cull
A Confidence Told to Me in Error
Brutality of the Workplace
Original Tin
A Clean Break
Tree Outside My Window
Urban Fox
Interview of Sorts
Battle
Drab Thursday
Slow Saturday
Granddaughter Aged 18 Months
The Likeness is Applied to the Canvas
Winter in Oxfordshire
The Likeness is Applied to the Canvas
Sharpening a Blunt Pencil
Rembrandt
America, America
Conversation with Ghost Monks at Leyburn
Rehearsal
A Walk Along the Edge of Water Coming In
Burial Customs
Chaff
Succulent
Soliloquy
String
Music
Grandmother
Our Fabulous Dead
A Brief History of Desire
Grave Digging
Rail Station
Derby
Blackpool
Meeting Place
Sculptor
Everybody’s Story
Memory
Combustion
Fishing Described
Combustion
The Seamstress
Bonfire
Saturday Night by the Market
Pre-war Man
Junkyard (Fletcher’s Dog)
Cremation at Kettlethorpe
The Meat Trade
Trainspotting
Two Men
Skinny Dipping
Urban Boy
That Time of Year
Walk
Husband
Illumination
Polluted Water
Vignette
Long Poems and Series
Storm at Ringinglow
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper
Clearance
Whitely Woods
Dawn Raid (Gulls in Bloomsbury)
Dissection
Ghosts
Roots
Totalitarian Commission
Lost
Garden Murder
Blustery Night
Deep Clean
Four Walls Deconstructed
Truth
April Shower
Bloomsbury
The Chemical Marriage
And They Found Each Other in Later Life
Morning Constructed and Tested
Stars, Planets
Fool Moon
Love
Nature Will Not Play the Game
Beginning
Truth’s Reassurance to the Breeze
He Was That Man, He Was
Fool’s Errand
Gravity
Becoming Mortal
When the Writer Makes the Text Speak to Us
Family Ties Thickening as I Grow Older
Autumn
Burial Customs
Dream
Awful Memory
Verse Envy
Margin
Bar Set High and Followed
Throwing Wood on an Open Fire
Dying Flowers
Strange, Unexpected Poem
Uncollected (a video poetry book, dedicated to Emily, text of the poems on YouTube)
A Lack of Control
Poem
The Impermanence of Solid Objects With Time
On Receipt of the Terrible News
Early Grief
Disheveled Start
Barber
Man Who Worked Too Hard, Reflects
Character Study
Cloud Busting
Craft
A Lowry Moment
The Inexplicability of Age
Beautiful Age
Cafe
Risk-Taking Friend
Miner
Declining Authority Leads to Loud Utterances
Revelation in Bold Footwear
Funfair Leaves the Park
Magpie and Crow
Calendar Drift
She Is Lonely
Postcode Decay
Poem in Four Parts
Flats
Emily Eating Mashed Food at Seven Months
Rubbish Introspection
Incident at Nero’s
Cafe at the Local Shopping Centre
Prince of Slumber
Fair Comes to Banbury
Ancient Folk Using Walking Aids on a Frozen Path
…. difficult, stubborn, intransigent ….
Elderly Couple Consume Life on a Daily Basis
Sunday Remembered
Slip
Northern Mining Town, Primary School, 60s
First Snow
On a Walk to Town
Purpose Only Recognized and Pursued in Later Life
Men Unloading Barrels at a Pub
Irascible Man
Short Notes
First Impression
Bitter Pen
All Things at Once
Thought Trapped Horribly in a Poem
Joy of Making
Distraction
Woods
Sometimes in a Fugue I dwell
The Shuffling of Words
Cold Day in Banbury
On How He Choose to Play His Hand
The Trade
Flu
Apples Rotting on the Ground Outside
January Cliches
The Hermit
Certainties
Paradox
Things That Are Broken and Not Broken
Thursday Market in February
Mirror
How Unexpected Words Can Alter the Path of a Life in a Single Moment
Another Morning
Mourning
Politicians Who Bleed to Order
Rage
I Am Rediculously Old
Rumination on Character
Early Disasters Fondly Remembered
Passing a Grumpy Old Sod on the Hills
Mortality
Fine Print Eventually Smudged
Eden Was Not Eden