manchester
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Beautiful Things
Most of my old paintings used as record sleeves have been in storage since 2002, they’re free now and I think they need to get out and about. This painting was used for the sleeve art for Haven’s 2nd release, Beautiful Thing.July 2021. Tar paint and emulsion on paper, started 1998, it’s still breathing and Continue reading
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Vegetable-ism.
Originally written in 2024 in response to the Farage Riots, it contains perennial truths. Did we grow right here? Did we sprout out of the very ground we inhabit? Are we vegetables? Or, did we arrive here by an historic process? My Dad once said that: ‘Manchester is a city of fleeing immigrants.’ Joe Moss. Continue reading
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Worrier on the Edge of Town.
It was cold on the edge of 1984. Dread swamped around frayed hems, an ominous puddle stagnating as the year loomed closer, then subsiding as the new year broke and that dumfungled vision of a jackboot future forever stalled, mired at the sluice gates neath the ruined towers on the edge of town. The young Continue reading
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Deirdre of the sorrows.
So it came to pass as the prophecy told, cast in the seeds of Cathbad’s toil, that three heroes would be shamed and exiled, the land and it’s people sundered and riven as warriors fought for the hand of our Deirdre of the sorrows. Of those three warriors, known as Ken, Mike and Samir, only Continue reading
the moss garden 