13.3.26 (unfinished/draft)

 

Rose ceiling turns out 

the smallest keep

how those who own property

might despise their own possessions, 

xylophones or thrown out 

a first floor window

between us the coming freedoms 

dead body to speak 

openly without lithium choked 

backcourts of tenement, box

bowls light from mirrors 

rooms brighter even now

in black damp twitch 

zennor oolong scratches or

my dolmens of efficiency saving 

mullion to mullion touches both sides

window ails whatever southward

lugwormed your hearts heart of proxies

done dark mica air or eyes or

pink feldspars clear quartz time

half-meant acid nuance choiceless 

in-dangling in-work poverty  

outexit buddleia status: hedonium

snapping no literary ambition

patrons vermiculate flesh coloured 

out of bounds people 

I waywend plainsong 

careered murmurings

the body of sadism defining 

class procreation serried

slow dead from here to Central Station  

22.05.25 (redrafted unfinished/draft)

Into a vacant rectangle 

benefits like garlands 

front lithed Love Faith & emblem 

is your heart growing at the rate 

of a Dobermans? ask yourself

what do their bedrooms look like 

under flashlights under diadem floodlights  

under Channel 4's sub-culture of poverty Orrery

of  consultations with Diocesan Synods

& other networks Steven Dymond's eyes

believe it is solved pure as government utilitronium  

palisade fencing 

permanent simple steps 

good enough for you believe to be again 

Weil frugality into speech &

sucked beneath as if it mattered

as if you could 

by following 10,000

permanent simple steps 

the aesthetic

is bins at the mad bin assembly  

stealing food budgets from your

future self the golden inspiration surges

against intrusions upended in the street

bloodlocked& L shaped

this is my version  

of a weak voice abolition of 

now the final leaden scene 

(pyromaniacal game of fetch).

End.

The Hunted (Stinson Hunter), 2026

 

Oil on Expensive European Fabric, 45cm x 35cm

The Hunted (Predator Exposure Phil Hoban) 2026

Oil on Expensive European Fabric, 45cm x 35cm

 

25.2.26 (draft/unfinished)

 

Left in bodachs of your own rendition

penalty of self turned in on 

a noxious clubbing bliss 

filled with your enemies 

their voices reverberating through partitions 

their children diving around in high fronds 

stamped where I thought I had opposed

& the intimately failing dioptric luna heart 

on the ground dumb where you honour 

anima slaughter invisible 

intermediate steps its second light 

little by little desuetude of blame forgotten

rending sacrifice worth making 

the direction of the horses had to be changed

wailed to negative innocence.

Untransparent what the position is 

comes out in grief bored dark 

voice just shadows desiccated

jealous in bivouacs

of future declined to clamber into one

under pinned breath 

the first thing we should have 

spoken about & remains

gloomy elksedge partially real 

partially pain caroms 

& gambols draw a boundary between 

hind sites cruel coldnesses i do not

deserve to still ask for love 

as some defeated cycle of optimism 

rehearsed better off numbing

at the skys napping heart or longing 

the best life i am holding you back from

The Hunted (Kellie Howarth as Lolita), 2026

 

Oil on Expensive European Fabric, 45cm x 35cm

Headington Hill Hall, 2026

 

 Oil on expensive European fabric  40 cm x 36.5cm  

Oxford Italianate mansion (actually rented from Oxford City Council) dubbed the ‘best council house in the country’ was lived in by Robert Maxwell from 1959 until 1991 where he eventually moved Pergamon Press publishing hundreds of ‘international scientific journals’. It was here that his nine children were brought up, living in a combination of what was described in the Times, as 'cruelty and luxury'. 

While in situ, Maxwell commissioned a stained-glass window as a feature of the imperial staircase, a depiction of Samson (modelled on himself) by the Israeli sculptor Nehemia Azaz. The lawn doubled as a helipad from which he would jet about for business and pleasure; the grounds too, were furnished with a tennis court and swimming pool. Under Maxwell's reign, all-out parties were hosted here for lan and Kevin and Ghislaine's classmates were reportedly invited over for reading competitions (which Ghislaine consistently won, awarded first prize).