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3/13/2016

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book launch sat 30th april 2016!!!

2/9/2016

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on the cusp of greatness publication date and launch

1/22/2016

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'on the cusp of greatness' by mark waddell will be published on 7th April by Valley Press. 

The London launch will take place on 30th April 2016. 
More details to follow...

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a thunderstorm of ...

8/28/2015

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her eyes burned...

8/28/2015

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usurpers appear at the edinburgh international book festival!! (john munro on the left and mark waddell on the right)

8/18/2015

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a budget day special - money sounds like

7/8/2015

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money sounds like


to the billionaire

money sounds like

the barely audible whisper of a sexual offer from a stranger overcome with the scent of  wealth

the whir of rotar blades

the perfect splash of perfect waves against a perfect yacht

the cushioned thud of a private-jet landing on a private island’s private runway

the hummingbird flutter of mulberry silk underwear floating down onto a $4.5m persian isfahan rug 

and 

the roar of rocket engines as the space-tourist space-craft hurtles towards mars



whilst to the poor 

money sounds like

another 

world. 

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alma street gig - a brilliant day as always!

7/6/2015

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gig this sunday 5th july at alma street FAIR, Kentish Town, NW5

7/3/2015

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This sunday 5th July - its the Alma Street FAIR, Kentish Town, London NW5 - fun and frolics from 12 noon till 7pm. 


Food, art, beer, clothes and jewellery stalls galore - and especially glorious in the predicted sunshine!!!  Plus music stages et al...


I have been invited to strut a few poems on the Grassy Knoll...no idea when but come on down and take it as it comes...


 
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we are all statistics

6/30/2015

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we are all statistics


‘we are all statistics’

noted the statistician 

as he stood on the beach

explaining

to the gathered children

that his cells 

would stretch to the sun and back 

61 times

and his 

10 pints of blood 

would be enough

to feed a 

100 colony of vampire bats 

for 

20 days

and his 

32 teeth

if made into an axe

would be able to chop through

13 feet of silver birch wood

before they broke



and he would 

of course

have been able to work out

the chances of becoming 

the first 

collector and interpreter of numerical data

to be killed

by a suicidal seagull

if only 

he had known.




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