Lemn Sissay

25/10/2025

The sun sweeps the path of night
And creeps into the day
'To keep what I have' said light
'I have to give it away.'

24/10/2025

28th June 2025

What do you think of this idea? "Prompt poetry" will be a new form where each line of a poem can be explored as a prompt in an AI image generator and yet each line can be explored without it.

"Man in a library. The library is a whirlwind."

24/10/2025

Aida Muluneh in the UK!

24/10/2025

I love the oxymoronic omnipresence of 'Artificial Intelligence'. Art and literature will always come from artists and writers except when it is from Artificial Intelligence. Let me correct myself! Art will always be valued from humans distinct from Artificial Intelligence yet Artificial Intelligence is not innately inhuman. I loves it.

Any-way in the way that nothing made by humans is physically represented without it first being imagined, the prompt (meaning the prompt for Artificial Intelligence to 'create something) will become a kind of poetry in that it can imagine and bring to life what is not yet physically represented. This is an exciting proposition to metaphysics.

The machine, the computer or phone or tablet you are reading right now had to be imagined. It is the physical representation of someones imagination. Therefore the prompt for AI to create will become a serious challenge to the way of things. "Prompt poetry" will be a thing. Prompt poetry will be a category in the Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics.

Anyways here is "An image of a black man in a space costume swimming in a giant cup of tea with words "Sup!" on the side of the cup"

24/10/2025

Welcome to my home it is made of glass
I sleep supine in the attic each night
To wake to watch the nightscape pass
And await the rhyme of swarming light

Photo by Pixabay

23/10/2025

The HOMELANDS exhibition at Rainmaker Gallery in Bristol celebrates the eightieth year in the life of Mvskoke artist Rick Grimster. Born to an English mother and a Native American father, war baby Rick was raised by adoptive parents in the UK.

The connection with Rick Grimster by Jo Prince of Rainmaker is a minor miracle. Rick studied at Cheltenham Art School and Birmingham University. Since then he refused to exhibit yet spent his life creating works. Somehow he connected through art with his Mvskoke past.

Jo Prince is one of Europe's leading experts on Indigenous Native American art and a friend to many of the greatest living artists in that field. Rick's daughter visited Rainmaker and brought some of his work. This is Rick Grimster's fourth exhibition with Rainmaker since then.





https://www.rainmakerart.co.uk/homelands-26-september-31-december-2025/

23/10/2025

Once again. An absolute babe.

23/10/2025

Said the mind to the heart
And the heart to the mind
'The important kind of art
Is the art of being kind'



With art influencer and doctor at Arch Hades exhibition 8 Berkley Square in Mayfair

22/10/2025

Do not take my poem from the streets of Manchester. Enough!

In 1998 my poem “Flags” was embedded into the pavement of Tib Street in The Northern Quarter of Central Manchester. See the photo above.  The font, also used for the street signs in The Northern Quarter was designed by artist Tim Rushton who created it to give The Northern Quarter its

22/10/2025

I threw the wind to caution
And left the gust a guest to fate
To the risk averse I risk a verse
It's never better never than late

Photo: Benton Photo

22/10/2025

Remember "Wonderwall"?

It is black history month in UK and someone has done this!

It is Noel Gallagher at his BEST.

"Don't look BLACK in anger".

What do you think?

Don’t Look Back in Anger (Soul) Oasis (Cover)

21/10/2025

One shot. Right now at BBC Manchester and a wonderful off air conversation with Mike Sweeney. Send me your one shot right now.