A live video taken at The Great Gig Together of The Ivory Clad Towers. Remember, you can find background on this poem as well as the text version on the previous blogs. Enjoy!

Look up At the ivory clad towers See the serpents, wound around the necks of rats Whispering in the ears of cameras Hear the chortles of attempted mockery dripping down Sprinkles of sugar glass Missing us by miles Disperse the colours of political spectrums Look left look right with empathy The ones chewed up, spat out by failure, outcast like lepers The ones soaked in the sweat of a crisis The ones abandoned, discarded like fast food wrappers The ones fleeing atrocities we

A little background on the poem I'll be unveiling later on. A couple of years ago I got involved with We Shall Overcome - Dewsbury (which is lovingly put together by Mark Martin and Julian Marc Manley) We found our selves bonding over music, politics and the belief in society, parting ways that night looking forward to the following year. On 16th June 2016, Jo Cox (MP for Batley and Spen) was murdered outside Birstall Library. It was a shock to the entire country, myself and

It's Monday evening, and it's been a wonderful and rich weekend at Long Division. The first thing I need to say is thank you! To all the poets on the spoken word stage, to Richard Wheater at Neon Workshops, to Dean and the entire at Long Division for all their support and commissioning the stage and finally to all the audience and attendees of Long Division. And now lets break things down, strap in because this might get long. Thursday Night - Poems Around The Piano Props to