Thoughts on a Stormy Night

Thoughts on a Stormy Night

new book of poetry. fast. furious. seven. or eight. negen.

 

Making Movies

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‘The magic of film is recreated, taken apart, examined and lovingly satirized in an unusual work of fiction. David Halliday imagines a BBC documentary about ‘the well known Canadian film maker Samuel Bremmer’. We see moments of the films themselves; we hear the words of the actors, the designers and the commentary of the director, Samuel Bremmer. The illusion of film, and how it is created against a backdrop of money problems, personality clashes, jealousies, ambitions, love and vanity. Originally published by Press Porcepic.’

Homicide

Homicide: Now and Then

Death comes in the quiet of our thoughts. When we were looking the wrong way. At the moon being smothered by a cloud. It begins in panic. Thrashing out. We want to live. Something standing over us. Waiting for our last breath. Murder. Now and then.

Hard Brush Soft Paint

I created an artist. And then lived through him for some time to create situations that I then wrote poems about. The artist is based vaguely on a close friend of mine and a fellow artist, Ed Kuris.  The poems were gathered in a book called Hard Brush Soft Paint.

Crowd Noises

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Saints of Jazz

Check out my book on the female jazz singers of the 20s to the 60s.

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the poet Abigail… at a reading

murder

Before there was the Simpson trial, before there was Judge Judy, there was murder. Murder is a book that unwinds like a movie with each poem a scene. We open with an introduction to the killer followed by the killer’s introduction to the victim at the murder scene. We read a report on the victim and then are introduced to the murder scene, the body at the morgue, the meeting of friends and relatives at the funeral. The police round up a group of suspects. An innocent man is charged and brought to trial. The judge, the prosecution, the defense lawyer, the spectators in the courtroom are introduced. Witnesses are brought forward who reveal their version of the events surrounding the murder. A judgment is brought down. The judge washes his hands of everything to do with the accused and turns him over to the mob who crucify the innocent man. After this horrendous lynching, the mob disbands and the world returns to its innocence.

Have a read… murder by David Halliday

Calendar Girls

Each month has a pic. Each pic has a story. Some of the stories are true. Some of the stories were found on Wednesday afternoons.

We measure our lives in years, months, days, seconds. Time does not move. All measurement is a memory. Some memories are true. April made up her own story. I was there. I know she’s telling the truth.

Calendar Girls

the great Canadian poet eminating…