He was upset. Nobody loved him.” Who can want me, a nobody, a bum.” “Tha’s alright kid, tha’s not a bum”. He was getting a bit sick of...

It’s late summer now, what was once short has grown tall – lots of seeds among flowers. A roof has appeared. It’s been a long time since...

Her little eyes shone, we walked. Her soft head stroked me, nails bit my hand; to us the hill had no gradient, we kissed and walked. I...

It was hot in the kitchen and the wasp came in. It felt a bit uncomfortable with it buzzing all around the kitchen. The chef’s wife was...

There are all these rocks embedded hard into the road, casting hard, dark shadows and the wind making bushes’ shadows dance. There was a...

An enormous blue frocked lady wobbled painfully over pebbles towards the water. She’s big but minute besides the blue waters edge. She...

The guitar stops. She eats his lips. In the darkness of the bunker you could see these eyes watching. A lad was offering some wine but...

Ann was pregnant. Everyone showed gentle attention to her. She always smiles, smiling away radiant and happy in the child carrying stage....

It’s them damn seagulls that’s getting on my nerves lately. There’s a corrugated tin roof on my room and those bastard seagulls keep...

“Love Island” Scilly Isles 5. Written by Richard Alan Gardham, transcribed by Angela Gardham. “Just look at all those flirting darlings....

Lust Island. Scilly Isles 6. Written by Richard Alan Gardham. Transcribed by Angela Gardham. The launch pulled slowly up to the rocks....

The Dying Moth – Scilly Isles 4. Written by Richard Alan Gardham in the early 1960s when he worked in an hotel on the island of St Marys...

This passage was written in the early 1960s when Richard was living in the Scilly Isles working as a seasonal worker in an hotel. It was...

Dad and The Screaming Donkey. Scilly Isles 2. Written by Richard Alan Gardham, 1962. Transcribed by Angela Gardham. He lay there among a...

It’s paradise here but it’s always cold in the water, forcing the body to ignore the cold. The flippers felt powerful as the legs pushed...

The Scilly Isles, 1962-4 Art and Writing. Exhibited in York, Spring 2019 The exhibition displayed drawings from the young artist’s time...