Barry's performance at Fire & Dust, the Big Comfy Bookshop Coventry, 6-10-2016

Fire N Dust Oct 16

Welcome Home

The Fireplace of Inspiration.
The second part of my poetry recital at the Polesworth Fizz, Poleworth Abbey 27th March 2012.

Bardic Celebratory
Ewe Mam
Kathmandu
Big Bill Blake
March of the Flyover
The Tin Angel
Deep Time

Time 21:54



The Fizz Two

Music, Prize winning stories from the National Forest, oak mysteries & poetry.

Woody Tales: Wild Man of the Woods Podcast #1

Barry's performance for "The Best of Fire & Dust" at Leamington Poetry Festival July 2019

Includes: Excerpt from Land Mandala, Let Every Particle of Dust Breath Forth its Joy, Sisyphus to a Beat

Leamington July 19

A poem sequence concerned with the nature of memory, time & identity; imagined journeys in the Palaeolithic, immersion in sea waves, pool & river waters. Holding a stone tool in your hand.

With thanks & a special dedication to my beloved tribe!

Time's Grandma

An alternative Yuletide tale featuring the Green Santa, a purple pixie, a flying tree & some missing, but much loved footwear.

Wild Man of the Woods Podcast #2 The Quest for Santa Claus' Socks

Opening with a sound bite of Allen Ginsberg reading from his poem The Sunflower Sutra & featuring my recently deceased friend Andrew Fox on shruti box in the backing track, this poem contemplates the task of the writer as well as male friendship.

Poem & all other instrumentation Barry Patterson.

Beat Sisyphus

Poem celebrating the visit of the World Drum to Cae Mabon & Bryn Celli Ddu, April 2013

World-Drum at Cae Mabon

A celebration of the coming of Summer: song, tales; history & folklore.

songandstory

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