![]() With one or two exceptions the poems in this collection were written between the years 19. The administrators, the barristers, the clients, all helped to make my time with them the best term I have ever served. ![]() I would like to thank The Poetry Society for thinking up such an interesting residency and for putting up with my unorthodox approach to it, and everyone at Tooks who made me so welcome and managed to endure a year of me following them to court, questioning them, and loitering with intent. Other poems from that residency not included here were written for performance only. ![]() Poems in this book written during that period and inspired by the residency are: ‘To Ricky Reel’, ‘To Michael Menser’, ‘Having a Word’, ‘Appeal Dismissed’, ‘Chant of a Homesick Nigga’, ‘I Neva Shot De Sheriff’, ‘Adultery’, ‘Two Dozen Babylon’, ‘Knowing Me’, ‘Derry Sunday’, and ‘The One Minutes Of Silence’. The residency was sponsored by The Poetry Society and although it was officially scheduled to run for 48 days I lost count of the days but spread my time there over a year. In February 2000 I started a residency at Tooks barristers’ chambers in London.
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