Written by: Richard Downes A photograph shows 12 horseshoes on a farm wall. Each one is turned the right way up for luck and 12 according to a scant scan of google is a most fortunate number. Not in this poem and not in the writers mind who knows the 1 fo... See more
Written by: Richard Downes This is based on a Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (ROFA) email which talked about the COVID death rate and gave this as the reasons disabled people have been disproportionately affected: - benefit cuts, with endless reassessmen... See more
Written as a Submission to The Mass whose January Edition focuses on the word erase. I used to work as an Advocate and it was usually a fruitless exercise to support someone to get a health report changed. We managed it sometimes but usually with the prov... See more
Written by: Richard Downes Complicity Theatre’s Teaching Training Pack; ‘Begin this work by giving your students themes which inhabit very small spaces (real or imaginary): ‘stuck in the lift’, ‘prisoners in a tiny cell’ or ‘there were ten in the bed…’. T... See more
Written by: Richard Downes Desolation; Departures and Arrivals Walking, as I do slouched and humble, I feel the cold blow of the rain on my face and resent the hill for its existence. Its a tedious winter trip to a station lightened by a ticket hall atten... See more
