Poetry Unplugged - London - 18/05/2010

I read at Poetry Unplugged:

- Pompey
- Circe's Pigsty
- Carlo Crivelli, Virgin and Child

Poetry Unplugged, Hosted by Niall O'Sullivan
The Poetry Cafe,
22 Betterton Street,
WC2H 9BX
London
Every Tuesday at 7:30 PM

Parallel Mirrors

The world, as we see it,
is a mirror of the mind
which the mind glares, trying
to look back at itself
but always falling, lost
in this Narcisus stare.

The mind, as it is,
is a mirror of the world
and when the world moves
a strong godlike right arm
a bantam left hand points down
at the dark back of the mind.

I stare at you often
as if you were my world
for you to stare back at me
with a deliberation
and mischievous intensity
that undresses will and thoughts.

Will I dare to return it
or was I the one who started?
If I am a reflex
let me be aware of it
so that your gaze on my face
a mirror with a purpose.

Spell Out - Manchester - 29/04/2010

Due to an exceptional concourse of circumstances, I ended up reading much more than I anticipated. I read the poems:

- Fuck me an Angel

- Penelope's Welcome to Ulysses

- Circe's Pigsty

- Excuses

- The sequence "The Rivers of Hades"
- Lethe, the River
-Styx
-Phlegethon, the River of Flame
-Acheron, the River of Woe
-Kokytos, the River of Lamentation
-The Secret River

Spell Out
Lloyds Hotel - 8pm
617 Wilbraham Road, Chorlton
M21 9AN

Last Thursday of each Month

Write Out Loud - Trafford/Manchester - 27/04/2010

I read the poems:
- One
- Summoning the Dead

Write Out Loud - Trafford
Waterside Arts Centre - 7pm
Sale Town Centre
M33 7ZF
4th Tuesday of each Month (not this May)