Yuri’s Night—stargazing poetry live
I was honoured to be asked to perform some stargazing poetry live in Dumfries to celebrate Yuri’s Night for the 56th anniversay of his historic spaceflight. It was my job to place everyone in the universe before our main speaker, an inspiring chap called Hayden Goodfellow, took us on an epic journey into our space-travelling…
The First Cosmonaut – Yuri Night Poetry
Travel through life as though life is the cosmos as though you are the first person to fly into its void as though your outstretched arms are powered by the sun as though your body is the mathematics of freedom as though your fingers speak the only language there is as though your eyes are…
how stars die
she sits on the bench feeding the birds late into the evening with two coats a scarf and a hat to keep her warm as her shoulders sag and her bright eye dims because this is how stars die as her children’s children’s children shiver and look and think how did we not notice for…
New Gold—a National Poetry Day poem
In 1977 two spacecraft were launched on an endless mission into the cosmos. They each carried a gold disc upon which was stored information about Earth in the hope that should any alien life see it they would know they are not alone. This poem imagines a new disc being created. A disc for us.…
Astro Poetica Book Trailer
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