Birmingham Poet Laureate

Portrait of Julie Boden

by Graham Kershaw.

The poem above (which I realise you can't read at the moment!) was commissioned by ACE for a national meeting they held at the ICC, Birmingham - shortly after the restructurings.  The poem was written in two parts.  The second part of the poem, not printed here, was written as a ghazal. This portrait was painted by Graham when we were planning the Spaghetti Poetraits.