Sonnet Hack – Day Sixteen

The Last Neanderthal’s Last Night on Earth Such things he’s seen, although his sight is blurred, the memories sharpen as the vision dims: the mammoth’s death, the final batch of skins, the scent of meat, the song about the hearth… His last meal was a flapping, wounded bird— slammed into the rocks by sudden winds— [...]

Utter Evolution- 15th October

Tomorrow night I will be performing some of my Palaeoanthropological poetry at Utter Evolution at the Cross Kings in King’s Cross. I’ll be reading first, probably round 7.50, so get there early for that reason but also because the door charge jumps from £5 to £10 at the stroke of 7.30. Details below: Thurs 15th [...]

Stop the Press! Fossils found 18 years ago!

Richard Dawkins coined a fantastic phrase in The Ancestor’s Tale: the discontinuous mind. The discontinuous mind is a kind of binary way of viewing the world, the non-realisation that many boundaries and watersheds exist for legal and bureaucratic convenience, they do not really reflect a substantial change in the real world. The discontinuous mind believes [...]