Category: Articles
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The Only Way Is…
[For secondary school students] When you become a kid You’re always looking UP At grown-UPs And some of them think you should… Keep UP with the others Stand UP when yer told to Live UP to expectations And always turn UP on time Eat UP all that dinner Drink UP all…
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Rugby League in Catalonia
[A version of this article was first published in The Girona Resident magazine] Here’s a quiz question. Apart from football, in what other sport does a Catalan team play with the best that the world has to offer? If you were to ask this question in Barcelona or Girona, not many people’s answers…
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“A better job:” English language newspapers in Japan
[First published in the Australian Journalism Review, 2001.] userfiles/file/EnglishLanguageNewspapersInJapan.pdf
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“A hunger for antiquity:” Interview with artist Rohan Chalmers
[First published in Catalonia Today on 29 May 2008] userfiles/file/Rohan Chalmers Vilafranca Artist Interview.pdf
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June Haiku
[Photo: Pedro Duarte] [England, 2006] Sitting in the dark A crack in every window Ants investigate …….. Against my own will Hours spent with petty minds And their dirty mouths ……… No feelings or words People tend flowers under That strange lamp the sun …….. Mouth wide…
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Death Notices
[First published in “Love and Fear: A Poetry Anthology,” 2003.] she died even the ambulance was ambivalent a baby died lying still on its back they thought about their income tax 1000 died spiraling down in a plane his world remained exactly the same a fly dies legs kicking in the air…
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Three Haiku (Written in Kyoto, Japan)
[First published in Monkey Kettle magazine, no. 24, 2006.] Portugese song voice Sweet, controlled, but free and light Heard in a night street ………. Transparent rain fell This memory of quite a day One time together ………. A woman’s laughter Whore, princess or girl: the same Evoultion’s poem
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The other driver of the bus
Traveling back from a freezing water-logged day of touch football in Hirakata today, (as the old English phrase goes) I had ‘occasion for thought.’ Watching a strange young man on the bus reminded me that I’ve noticed a high proportion of mentally disabled people in Japan, when compared to other countries I’ve…
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Happy
Your own sun pearl is happy It is deliverance Happy is walking and dropping from nowhere It is weightless Happy is not over there Happy is just about to know you It’s the hand that sayeth go thou go thou And happy is driving through it Recognizing Happy is no one’s measly mantra…
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Sade – Lovers Rock
[This CD review was first published in Kansai Scene magazine.] It’s been some time since we heard from Sade – eight years in fact, so this release is almost a comeback for her. Our waiting has not been in vain. This return proves her to be much more than a passenger from the 1980’s.…
Brett Hetherington 