by Steve Tanham
Time-travelled fragments of mittened fingers Held in firm parental hand Exploding neighbours’ gardens Ripe with bangs and secretly given toffee-apples Eyes that glistened with a million smiles And a few deep breaths as Imagination proved secondary To ruptured air obeying gunpowder’s plot So long ago, now Yet In these simpler flames Where logs surrender to stealthy heat And memory is escorted, glowing It remains … Read More Family Fire
by Steve Tanham
To me, there’s something of the late 1950’s about any image like this with ‘stripey light’ in it. I was born in the middle of that decade. My parents were keen to escape the ‘factory streets’, and we moved out of the terraced housing of ‘old Bolton’ to a seemingly progressive village sitting on a hill halfway to Bury; where the cotton-barons were replaced … Read More Stripey light and an old red Mercedes
by Steve Tanham
I’ve had them for more years than I care to remember… They were seriously expensive, back then in Bolton in the late 1980s. In a rare solitary moment, I had a coffee, then strolled through the retail side of ‘The Reebok’, as the new development was called then. All of it centred around the impressive new ground of the Bolton Wanderers football team. I … Read More Goodbye, old friends…
Sun in Gemini 
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