A Day in the Life of a Land Called Utopia

At the Peckham Hotel on 14th December, people were asked to stick post-its to a ‘Utopia Wall’, imagining things they’d like to see and do in a day in a perfect world. It was my job to take the ideas and make them into a poem. Here it is. The ideas are not mine although I got to interpret them as I felt.

Peckham Hotel, Weds 14th Dec

    Another day another pop-up event. This time at the Peckham hotel. I’m on at 8.30pm and then will be collecting ideas for a ‘day in the life of utopia’ to create a new poem about a new world to perform at 9.30. Original and interesting event – multimedia, free, pushing boundaries, mixing audiences etc. Looking forward to it.

Earthly Paradise

The peasants who, in the 14^th century
stormed the Tower of London
and bust into John of Gaunt’s luxury pad
to release the prisoners
and burn the poll tax records;