Two poems from the early part of the extended sequence 'Jamie's Book of Ingenuity'. The first, 'How to rise', employs conflicting pieces of advice culled from obituaries, tribute, laudatory speeches, etc. The second poem, ...

This short essay gives an account of my current work writing a long sequence of poems centred on the life and times of the engineer, scientist and businessman James Watt. Material from Birmingham’s extensive Boulton & ...