God Emperor of DidcotTea a beverage brewed from the fermented dried leaves of the shrub Camellia sinensis and imbibed by all the great civilisations in the galaxys history; a source of refreshment, stimulation and, above all else, of moral fibre without which the British Space Empire must surely crumble to leave Earth at the mercy of its enemies. Sixty per cent of the Empires tea is grown on one world Urn, principal planet of the Didcot system. If Earth is to keep

These poems grew out of working with a family of 3 generations of blacksmiths in an Oxfordshire forge

“As long as we sing his songs

who “found in him the father who refused to practise his patriarchy and a poet who always renewed himself in his rebellion against rhetoric

An oblong bump in the shirt

Llandaff is the hub of the Church in Wales

Fadhil al-Azzawi – Chapters from The Dead City

Love Song from the Cross and Solo Performance trans

Sometimes autobiographical and narrative

The Admirations (1989) which won the Oregon Book Award

won the 2005 Forward prize for the Best Single Poem

Iggy McGovern

turning them upside down and inside out to shed light on the messy business of being alive