September 2025 – Robert Garnham

The Doors (A Poem for Human Rights, performed at the Burnham Book Festival)

I wrote this poem about ten years ago after reading an article about the human rights situation and particularly LGBTQ rights in various countries, and it seems that things have not got any better.

The Massive Text Message

Here’s a surreal poem I wrote in a workshop in Burnham on Sea. I was staying in a room above a pub and it was just so, so noisy thst I decided to record it there, and then film this video to go with it.