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About Me

Well, im 40, a poet, cook, artist. Yorkshire born- where else. Dont live there of course, i find that glossy romantic image of rolling dales and rough hewn blokes leaning on five bar gates watching sheep deteriates the closer i get to the sacred place. Anyway, i only found out last year that we'd lost the war of the roses. Maybe every yorkshire child is brought up to believe it, booing on the m62 when they cross over into lancashire. I don't know. What i do know is that there i was, proudly damning lancastrian scum not only for being lancastrian scum but for being beaten 400 years ago when i was taken aside and told gently by a yorkshire woman that we were ourselves abjectly trounced and ground into the peaty moors, not them. Hum. Something else i never understood was that my dad was from manchester making...him...oh. All v confusing and so a fundimental part of me.Why oh why i have the other fundimental parts is beyond the remit of this about me bit. At least i've written something i suppose.

My Interests

walking, badger watching!, bad punctuation, wild flowers, music, poetry, laughing and taking the piss. actually thats probably my favourite pastime.

I'd like to meet:

Poets, musicians, passionate people who arent afraid of doing things differently if itd more interesting. Theres bound to be folk out there who are up for not taking life too seriously so i want them. Come on you poets of little grace, you fools of passion, you wanton lovers. come and leave messages, read my blogs, annoy me, like or loathe my poetry but dont just sit there...

Music:

avenge sevenfold, my fair lady, mika, cradle of filth, nickel creek...

Movies:

napoleon dynamite, jerry springer the opera, amelie, waking life, sound of music, hedwig and the angry inch...

Television:

father ted, carnivale

Heroes:

david attenborough

My Blog

THE OLD TESTAMENT

Well after all this time, if anyones still looking, this is what I’ve been beavering away at, or a little bit of it anyway. No more poetry. I’m loving prose now. Oh yes. This is from my ne...
Posted by Andy on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:09:00 PST

finding flint

i used to be an archaeologist in wiltshire for many years, much of which was concerned with field-walking where ploughed fields are systematically scoured for artifacts and ev...
Posted by Andy on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:24:00 PST

porn and a long hot summer!

well ok, this is a story about the first time i bought porn, when i was fifteen. it was a real eye-opener. its not about the rights and wrongs of porn just about a teenage kid who wante...
Posted by Andy on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:33:00 PST

nature table

all my life, nature has been the biggest part of me, my greatest love and joy, so alot of my poems echo this i guess. this is a true story, when i was five. americans know the nature table as show and...
Posted by Andy on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:23:00 PST

sylvia plath and blackberrying in november.

ok, heres a piss take rejoinder to a sylvia plath poem, blackberrying. i make no apologies for picking up and rattling the sacred guilded bell jar that holds the memory of plath. but neither ...
Posted by Andy on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:57:00 PST

death sequence

ok, well what im going to do is put 5 poems all on the same blog. now i know its a pain in the arse to have so many poems to trawl through at once- i dont like it much either but theyre all linked and...
Posted by Andy on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:50:00 PST

winter hare

sometimes, out of the blue, when your minds a million eons away from anything, life drops an amazing thing into your lap, or probably into the hood of my coat at the time. fuck this was a cold c...
Posted by Andy on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:10:00 PST

bottle necks

well it seems to be a day of break up poems so heres one of mine. this was a hell of a painful time. but we all find a way through somehow, moment by moment, until we stop counting. ...
Posted by Andy on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:02:00 PST

bird watching

so this is a true story about one cold january birthday a few years ago. warmer than today though and its raining again. im seeing if i can go barefoot all winter, at least when im on the farm where i...
Posted by Andy on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:23:00 PST

cow castrati

two for today. this is a previous cow poem. and out of interest, mischief night is celebrated in the north of england the day before bonfire night, the evil daddy of trick or treating and far more ann...
Posted by Andy on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 06:33:00 PST