Just One Man

February 2026

Why The Greens and Reform Are Cousins

The Green Party and Reform are cousins.

Feb 27 • Just One Man

August 2025

Search Lights

A tractor in the sky, headlights on full beam. Looking lost, looking for the lost. A wandering child. An escaped bandit. A Schrodinger's gossip of…

Aug 13, 2025 • Just One Man

A Pair of Cats

A pair of cats getting fat, but they still bring home the mice. A bed in every room, but still we have to make room. They don't fetch, or come when…

Aug 3, 2025 • Just One Man

July 2025

Too Early

Don't be early, don't be late, not for your funeral or for a date. Not for yesterday or tomorrow, with your joy or your sorrow. Or hesitate and before…

Jul 31, 2025 • Just One Man

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Dreaming

Why do we sleep if we can't dream? A hop, skip and jump into the unreal. Fairies, monsters, the stories unfold. But as we awake, they're never retold.

Jul 29, 2025 • Just One Man

A City Alive: 24 Hour Rock n Roll Party

A selection of Haiku-esque poems following Oasis at Heaton Park July 12 2025

Jul 16, 2025 • Just One Man

Goalies and Drummers

Goalies and drummers: the short supply, Rolls Royce of teenage social circles. Goalies and drummers: the custard, friendship busting, chains of teams…

Jul 15, 2025 • Just One Man

Grow Your Own

Grow, grow, grow your own. Dig some soil, throw some seeds. Veg, fruit, try the lot. The more you sow, the less you shop. I don't want chemicals on my…

Jul 11, 2025 • Just One Man

An Ant Named Colin

I spot an ant upon my patio. Scrambling over stones: two, three, four more. Like raisins taking a hike, across monstrous mountains. Consistent…

Jul 10, 2025 • Just One Man

Merf Up / Comms Down

merf, womp, plung merf, womp, plung What the fuck have I done? Breed some new age futuristic, sarcastic, linguistics. I'm not talking text speak, street…

Jul 8, 2025 • Just One Man

Maccie Dee's Drive Thru

Quiet please, concentrating. Radio off. Specs on. Memorise defaults: chicken burger, banana milkshake, medium. Two lanes. Counting cars. Lane 2. Can't…

Jul 3, 2025 • Just One Man