Liverpool-based
Tom George is well-known on the city’s poetry scene for a wistful and witty
performance style that often includes other elements such as music, drama
and multi-media.
Winner of the
Dead Good Poets’ Society slam in 2008, Tom has also been featured on Channel
4 television and has staged several one-man shows at Liverpool’s
Unity theatre.
“Tom is a
skilled and versatile polymath who impresses over several disciplines. I
urge you to catch his next show” – Black and White magazine
Tom has
performed throughout the UK,
in Europe and Africa, while
his poetry has appeared in several anthologies.
He recently
produced his first collection of poems, entitled “How Now”. The book
features unique illustrations by artist Ana Cade, and contains poems about
rainbows, spiders and nightclubbing.
Empty
Wet
I’m walking up
Bold St
when it starts to rain.
I wonder if I
can make it to the Philharmonic before I’m soaked?
Miraculously,
everyone around me produces umbrellas.
A woman is
walking just ahead of me.
I wonder if
she’ll let me share.
‘cos I
would…I would.
Mousy lady, let
me shelter with you.
I want to have
dry thoughts.
Lets walk
together and share our lunchtime longings.
We’re walking
in parallel
Then she looks
over, and I hurry on
I jog up the
hill with water running down my face
Past students
laughing and splashing
A young woman
is holding a comedy umbrella
See-through
blue,
With a shark’s
fin on top
Student girl
I need your
sense of fun right now
Let me join
your hemispherical world
Of glitter and
Pringles
Further up, I
shelter in the doorway of the Fly in the Loaf
Watching the
afternoon monsoon
The coursing
gutter is the Ganges
Pilgrims travel
from far and wide
To immerse a
foot
And be purified
A milkshake lid
floats by
Looking kind of
sad
Reminding me of
how I’ve felt these last few weeks
Feeling so
adrift and hurting bad
But it’s okay
‘cos on this
day
I don’t need
you like I did
I just need a
brolley
To help me out
When things get
wetter
That’s right
That’s better