Browsing All posts tagged under »Fruit«

Apple Martin and ‘The Orange’

November 7, 2011

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It is ironic, given the famously macrobiotic, alfalfa-sprouting life-style of her famous parents (Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin), that Apple Martin’s name reminds me of nothing so much as an Apple Martini. And, maybe I’ve had too many Appletinis in my time but I had immense trouble thinking of poems featuring apples (suggestions welcome in […]

Jodie Marsh and ‘Greengrocer, London SE 11′

October 17, 2011

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Am I collecting poems with the word “nipple” in them or what? First it was ‘To His Lost Lover’ by Simon Armitage and now it’s ‘Greengrocer, London SE 11′ by Eoin McNamee. (Know the names of any other poems mentioning nipples? It would be an interesting hook, so to speak, for an anthology – and […]

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