January 2010
2 posts
The Regeneration ABC.
I was meant to be working this afternoon but got a little side-tracked and went for a wander to clear my head. I went through Holbeck along my usual route beside the moor and I wish I’d taken my camera … the demolition of the Recreations has begun. The place looks even spookier than usual. Closed off streets and gutted houses. There were a couple of small boys messing about behind the...
Regeneration.
I was listening to Mike Garry’s poem “Regeneration” this morning after another conversation on Twitter with @mikechitty. I decided to have a go at my own South Leeds version … it’s not as gloomy as Mikes’s poem, and I cobbled it together over my coffee break so it hardly constitutes literature. I had fun writing it though. It kept my brain ticking over at least....