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Country star Dolly Parton is urging people to have a covid vaccination with an adaptation of her hit Jolene, but Dolly isn’t the only person to find artistic inspiration in the vaccine.

Nurse Chris Gibson, who works at the vaccination centre at Sherborne House in Newton Abbot, has written a poem to reassure patients.

“We see the people behind the statistics. Everybody has a...

Despite their pubs being currently closed, many publicans across the South West are spreading some cheer to people in their local communities, during these challenging times, by sharing a heartwarming poem about pubs written and performed by a poet from Bristol.

The poem, which has been specially commissioned for pubs in the South West by arts project INN CROWD, is called ‘The Best...

A poem written about Derriford Hospital by Plymouth's Poet Laureate, Mike Sullivan, has gone on line.

The board of Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust commissioned Mr Sullivan to write a 'warts and all' poem about the hospital.

The result is a work called "Bring Us Your Sick".

Mr Sullivan was recently a guest on Hospital Radio Plymouth during which he...

Councillor Chaz Singh... Plymouth's incumbent Deputy Lord Mayor, has long been an enthusiastic supporter and follower of my work, along with long time friend David 'Davy' Saunders, the Town Crier,

Such is their enthusiasm for my work, in light of the fact I have produced all the recent civic poetry up to and including the recent 'City of Culture' bid poem, they...

The latest piece intended for my forthcoming illustrated collection written especially for children - 'Toadstools & Jam..' Feel free to share your thoughts...

‘The Cat Catcher..’

In the shadows, silent creeping, when the town is sound asleeping; And the night comes slowly stirring, toms and tabbies gently purring; Black as night and quick as lightning, fierce as...

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‘On the Hustings..’

“We’re all in this chaps together”, barefaced in their Eton plummies; Scratching at a well spanked nether, swearing on their sainted mummies: Old school ties all dingle dangle, Harris Tweeds with rich boy pockets; On the soap box jingle jangle,...

I was asked... As it generally falls to me, in the absence of a 'Laureate' poet for the city, to deal with any 'municipal' poetry required by the City of Plymouth; to write a poem to support the bid...

Here it is - and is entitled: 'Art & Artifice..'

‘Art & Artifice..’

In the kiln’s wild, white infernos; molt glass fishes dart and...