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REVIEW: Full Body Reclaim by Caroline Stancer (Five Leaves) – Neil Fulwood 

An established figure on the East Midlands literary scene as one half (with Birgit Friedrich) of the poetry collective Dandelions, Caroline Stancer makes her publishing debut with Full Body Reclaim, a handsomely produced…
REVIEW: Full Body Reclaim by Caroline Stancer (Five Leaves) – Neil Fulwood 
An established figure on the East Midlands literary scene as one half (with Birgit Friedrich) of the poetry collective Dandelions, Caroline Stancer makes her publishing debut with Full Body Reclaim, a handsomely produced pamphlet in Five Leaves’ New Poetry series. Whereas many first volumes hint at a voice beginning to find itself, or something taking shape that points towards the promise of the future (“Critics, hold your fire,” as Vernon Scannell put it: “the best is yet to come”), what we have here is more like a showreel: a confident demonstration of Stancer’s talent and capabilities.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
OWEN GALLAGHER – THREE POEMS

‘BATMAN AND BATWOMAN ROB THE POUNDSTRETCHER STORE!’ We could set up a graffiti school,get commissions from gangs, let students practicein the basement car park before allocating billboards, churches, banks. We could start up a skunk farm.There are enough empty flats in…
OWEN GALLAGHER – THREE POEMS
‘BATMAN AND BATWOMAN ROB THE POUNDSTRETCHER STORE!’ We could set up a graffiti school,get commissions from gangs, let students practicein the basement car park before allocating billboards, churches, banks. We could start up a skunk farm.There are enough empty flats in this block.Police dogs would get doped up finding their way round here. Let’s set up a personal shopping service.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Caroline Stancer – Three Poems

WAITING FOR THE RAPTURE When I visit I walk throughcorridors created by everything from your mother’s flat(she was a hoarder too). The sealed boxesare draped with clothes,empty cans, takeaway containers full of ashy slimeand a syringe abandoned by a temporary lodger.…
Caroline Stancer – Three Poems
WAITING FOR THE RAPTURE When I visit I walk throughcorridors created by everything from your mother’s flat(she was a hoarder too). The sealed boxesare draped with clothes,empty cans, takeaway containers full of ashy slimeand a syringe abandoned by a temporary lodger. You are keeping these stacked packages so carefully,they must be for your life in heaven—
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December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
FAR FROM NOTTINGHAM: THE INSIDE TRACK ON ALAN SILLITOE’S THE GENERAL – Neil Fulwood

Although well-received in some quarters (“Sillitoe scores a hat trick” - Punch), The General confounded many people. Highly anticipated after the one-two of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of…
FAR FROM NOTTINGHAM: THE INSIDE TRACK ON ALAN SILLITOE’S THE GENERAL – Neil Fulwood
Although well-received in some quarters (“Sillitoe scores a hat trick” - Punch), The General confounded many people. Highly anticipated after the one-two of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, here was a curious fable, miles removed from the back-streets of Nottingham, its twin protagonists the titular military type and a standoffish orchestra conductor who ends up as his prisoner.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
ANDY CROFT’S ESCAPE TO MORIBUNDIA: AN EXCERPT

Forthcoming from Broken Sleep in 2027, Andy Croft’s Escape to Moribundia is a verse-novel in Pushkin sonnets. A black comedy about the colonisation of the Future, a study in Hauntology and a bad dream featuring Trump, Musk, Farage, Palaeolithic…
ANDY CROFT’S ESCAPE TO MORIBUNDIA: AN EXCERPT
Forthcoming from Broken Sleep in 2027, Andy Croft’s Escape to Moribundia is a verse-novel in Pushkin sonnets. A black comedy about the colonisation of the Future, a study in Hauntology and a bad dream featuring Trump, Musk, Farage, Palaeolithic hunters, US cops, public schoolboys, merchant bankers, Fascists, Daleks, a pack of wolves and a minotaur, it is based on Patrick Hamilton’s 1939 science-fiction satire…
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December 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
THE SIGNAL-BOX BY NEIL ‘DICKY’ FULWOOD

“Hallo!” The word came out of the fog, followed only a second or two later by thevague outline of the man who had shouted it, the more substantial outline of abuilding of some description behind him, and a smudge of grubby yellow-orangewhich seemed to be…
THE SIGNAL-BOX BY NEIL ‘DICKY’ FULWOOD
“Hallo!” The word came out of the fog, followed only a second or two later by thevague outline of the man who had shouted it, the more substantial outline of abuilding of some description behind him, and a smudge of grubby yellow-orangewhich seemed to be hanging in shaky suspension next to his head. It was only as I…
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December 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Neil Fulwood: Two Poems

DIET This is where I am right now, feeling likeI’m in some loose-limbed American poemby one of those hard-living American poets.Mentioning no names, but … those poets,who casually toss their cookiesin the car park of a roadhouse then go back inside.Who work their way…
Neil Fulwood: Two Poems
DIET This is where I am right now, feeling likeI’m in some loose-limbed American poemby one of those hard-living American poets.Mentioning no names, but … those poets,who casually toss their cookiesin the car park of a roadhouse then go back inside.Who work their way through brands of mouthwashlike fresh-breath sommeliers, coming downoff the Scotch.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
LEAFE PRESS: Alan Baker your guide.

LEAFE PRESS Leafe Press publishes poetry, mainly of the modernist / post-modernist variety. It's a 21st century press and a digital press; it was founded in April 2000 with a launch at Nottingham Central Library and was run with digital printing and desk-top…
LEAFE PRESS: Alan Baker your guide.
LEAFE PRESS Leafe Press publishes poetry, mainly of the modernist / post-modernist variety. It's a 21st century press and a digital press; it was founded in April 2000 with a launch at Nottingham Central Library and was run with digital printing and desk-top publishing software, which was still new, and which was helped by my working in the IT industry. The press is named after Leafe Close, the street I was living in at the time, and that was named after James Leafe, one of the munitions workers killed in the Chilwell explosion of 1918 who would probably be bemused that a poetry publisher was named after him.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
On stage at Water Rats London Thursday 6th November 2025...supporting Steady Habits and The Dreaming Spires
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I have uploaded my two full sets at Cornerstone to Youtube that has created a podcast type playlist for them. My heartfelt thanks to David Stephenson or Wonderboy Preacher as shown on Normal Town Sounds Map and now Groovy Arts Club band for the videos.
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Thames Valley Texas - YouTube
Songs and poems from the Thames Valley Texas 'tour' supporting The Dreaming Spires launch of 'Normal Town'.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Dark Weather's coming in...
Barn Burning Bright
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November 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
WELCOME TO THAMES VALLEY TEXAS:

I have launched this collection which is now available.
Thames Valley Texas: Poems is included with a download of the music.
DOWNLOAD HERE FOR FREE
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November 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The FREE download bundle for Thames Valley Texas now includes a sampler of the Normal Town Sounds book which in preparation still. Apparently the chap below never played guitar ...
Available now here:
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November 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The Thames Valley Texas booklet of songs and photos as a pdf now available as a FREE download bundle at...
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THAMES VALLEY TEXAS, by Shaun Belcher
12 track album
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November 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
TRICK OR TREAT...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
ROSS WILSON: THREE POEMS

The Great Stink ‘But the Dragon was loose at the time . . .No one had challenged him lately . . .He got to our part of the world; nobody saw him ofcourse, there was just like a bad smell in the airand everything went sour; people’s mouths and eyeschanged their look…
ROSS WILSON: THREE POEMS
The Great Stink ‘But the Dragon was loose at the time . . .No one had challenged him lately . . .He got to our part of the world; nobody saw him ofcourse, there was just like a bad smell in the airand everything went sour; people’s mouths and eyeschanged their look overnight – and the government…
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October 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
ANTHONY OWEN: POEM ‘Hurricane Benjamin’

In the heart of a stolen starWe are back to wigwams againNames on limbs just incase it comesHurricane Benjamin destroyer of tents,Destroyer of children and whole bloodlines. Fuck it, lets get back to relatable world events -Someone in England died from the…
ANTHONY OWEN: POEM ‘Hurricane Benjamin’
In the heart of a stolen starWe are back to wigwams againNames on limbs just incase it comesHurricane Benjamin destroyer of tents,Destroyer of children and whole bloodlines. Fuck it, lets get back to relatable world events -Someone in England died from the skinny jabAlan misgendered Beth again raise a low-level concernAnd don't worry about Sudan it's a mythical place…
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October 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
THE GOOD LIFE: SOCIALISM IN SURBITON – Robert Kenchington

This year marks the 50th anniversary since the original broadcast of one of the most beloved of British television series, The Good Life. Created and written by John Esmonde and Bob Larby, the series' premise is well known: namely the highs…
THE GOOD LIFE: SOCIALISM IN SURBITON – Robert Kenchington
This year marks the 50th anniversary since the original broadcast of one of the most beloved of British television series, The Good Life. Created and written by John Esmonde and Bob Larby, the series' premise is well known: namely the highs and lows of a middle-aged suburban couple who decide to quit the rat race and become self sufficient in contrast to the affluent, acquisitive lifestyle of their upwardly mobile neighbours.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
HALF A CENTURY AGO … Ross Bradshaw

Fifty years is a long time in politics... and it was fifty years ago that four young anti-militarists in Aberdeen were arrested under the arcane charge of Incitement to Disaffection. I was one of those accused of trying "to seduce a member of Her Majesty's Forces…
HALF A CENTURY AGO … Ross Bradshaw
Fifty years is a long time in politics... and it was fifty years ago that four young anti-militarists in Aberdeen were arrested under the arcane charge of Incitement to Disaffection. I was one of those accused of trying "to seduce a member of Her Majesty's Forces from their duty". Though I doubt whether I've ever seduced anyone in my life, in this case it was for giving members of the armed forces the leaflet…
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October 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM