Sunday morning sermon with the Rev. Hummingbird: 

I. 

Skeleton tree

Points skyward —

helpless. 

ll.

Black spire

punctures the sky —

silent echo.

Today we check in with Basho, Dylan Thomas, Jack Kerouac, Nick Cave & Springsteen and, of course, our dear friend the Old Tea Seller, Basaō. 

Be good to yourself. 

PS. remeber to subscribe and be kind and write a haiku or two. 

A clear bright winter's foggy-headed Sunday morning session.   

JP's spirits are bouyed by the beautiful light of the November sun, the glorius winter sun, Lucian Fraud's favourite sun that casts the best Portrait light. 

This episode Features: 

Poetry from: 

Baisaō, The Old Tea Seller (Transalated by Norman Waddell)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Translated by Simon Armitage)

Notes on the Sonnets (Luke Kennard)

Songs from:

Nick Cave  

JP Hummingbird

Fare thee well, world.

This morning is amazing and so are you. 

Back from the operating theatre with poetry, song and meandering thought trains that keep rumbling through the green fields, past great victorian wharehouses, through clouds and fallen leaves...   

'Unrequited Love' special. Enjoy. Share. Bare. Be content. Fall in & Out of Love again & again & again...

There is an upswing in the air as life returns with a late summer surge: 

10:00 - Notes on the Sonnets, inspired by Luke Kennard 

25:00 - Tales from the Red Hand Files with Nick Cave 

40:00 - Long Black Veil, inspired by The Band and Lefty Frizzell

I hope there is levity in the air whereever you may be. Fare thee well old friends and new. PG

The summer's end is near: we're talking NickCave, We No who U R & the Red Hand File: Was Bukowski a jerk? There is an appearance from our favourite french Prose-Poet, Charles Baudelaire, as he revels in the darkness of 'One O'clock in the Morning. JP, then reflects on the rise of his inner hermit crab as well as the writings and long form cinematic masterpieces of Roberto Saviano - author of Gomorra and Zero, zero, zero. 

Time Stamps:

03:00 - We No who U R

13:50 - The Red Hand Files Pt. 1

21:26 - The Red Hand Files Pt. 2; Was Bukowski a jerk?

26:30 - One O'Clock in the Morning with Charles Baudelaire 

34:15 - Washed Up in Wolverhampton with JP Hummingbird 

40:00 - The Nick Adams Stories with Hemingway

43:00 - Gomorra Evennings with Roberto Saviano 

56:00 - "Focus on what you can do!" C McGregor

58:00 - Outro with snippets of Nick Cave, JP Hummingbird and The Soul