BANGING ON

BANGING ON is a collection of poetry written largely on the hoof during the first two decades of the 21st Century.  It is a battle cry, a lament, a kick up the arse, a ritual and smirk with more than a hint of hysteria, in the original sense of the word...

WITH, section one is somewhat wry commentary on the state of affairs we find ourselves confronted with as we encounter a seeming unceasing flow of interstate infamy and internet driven idiocy

MY, the second section looks to the personal and community experience of inner-city life in a late-stage capitalist context and the high emotional costs of negotiating ones survival in between the headlines

DYING The penultimate section examines more closely the physical, literal and conceptual assaults upon both one's person and one's spirit and speaks a yearning, a longing for a wholesome integration with the universe

BREATH the fourth and final section concludes the journey with a promise of an ever more desperate insistence, a refusal to accept the paltry reward of capital, a determination to strive to live free, all under pinned by a comfortable acceptance that it isn't going to happen