Poetry

16/09/08
Click-clacking down the streets, money-making, ego puffing, playing the game until.... ...more
 
15/09/08
I worked for a year on the national domestic violence helpline. While I was there I learnt that violence is not about love. It’s about power and control. In our culture we often confuse love, sex and violence. ...more
 
02/09/08
Dedicated to bell hooks whose words make me angry and finally face up to myself. ...more
 
16/06/08
This is inspired by the life of an activist who died recently. She never allowed herself to be strung up by public opinion and never gave up the grassroots struggle. She's inspiring for that reason. She died recently of old age. I've changed her name. ...more
 
16/06/08
This is the antithesis of the liberated feeling in the Patti Smith song of the same title. ...more
 
13/02/08
This one's about domestic violence (emotional, physical and financial). It's about men taking and women putting up with being taken from. It's about my anger and sadness at that state of affairs. ...more