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Journalist, Editor, Writer – FOR HIRE

  • by Tim Smith
  • Posted on 24th January 201912th February 2019
  • Blog
  • Featured
Tim Smith

My name is Tim Smith. I have 30 years experience in journalism and editing in magazines and books. I can work in traditional print media also digital and online with equal confidence, timeliness and budgetary common sense.

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The Jewish Museum in Berlin

  • by Tim
  • Posted on 23rd January 201923rd January 2019
  • Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin

Sabine and I went to Berlin and to the spectacular Jewish Museum. Afterwards we drank coffee, smoked cigarettes and discussed what we had experienced.

Basically we had gone to the museum because we were in Berlin and also to … Read the rest

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Fighting yourself while looking for work

  • by Tim Smith
  • Posted on 22nd January 2019
  • Ageing
Judged

Fighting yourself while looking for work 

Words are stuck in their tracks 

No ability any longer other than to stumble in an out of rage

Rage and impotence slapping together, wet, rank and joyless

As the world goes by not … Read the rest

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All About the Movement

  • by Tim Smith
  • Posted on 21st January 20193rd February 2019
  • Fiction
All About the Movement

So, what about Glastonbury or some small village in Vietnam where the brutality is glazed over with warm spirituality and the illusion that the real world occurs in the in the other side of the planet?

Utter and obvious rubbish, … Read the rest

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Men – Just Men

  • by Tim Smith
  • Posted on 18th January 20193rd February 2019
  • Blog
Bad Man

PREAMBLE

Having quite clearly gone insane, Russell had called me over to the house to show me just how low he’d sunk and how he was very definitely not coming back and he was taking us all with him. Honestly … Read the rest

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Everything Will Be Okay

  • by Tim Smith
  • Posted on 14th January 201914th January 2019
  • Blog
Everything Will Be Okay

Everything’s going to be OK.

After a few years of pain.

For those of us who make it.

Everything will be Okay.

 

The only ones who matter

Are the ones who survive.

Common Sense.

Forget War Graves and Still … Read the rest

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Daddy’s Girl Calls in a Favour

  • by Tim Smith
  • Posted on 14th January 2019
  • Blog
Daddy’s Girl Calls in a Favour

Feb 10th

Janette walked in the kitchen. She walked and walked. She walked around the kitchen looking for beer. Her kitchen as was. Changes had been made, she had to admit that they were all good changes too. That admission

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It Is What It Is – a Portrait of Mike.

  • by Tim Smith
  • Posted on 14th January 20191st February 2019
  • Blog
Mike - It is what it is.

“It is what it is.”

Let me introduce you to Mike. Solid Mike. Michael doesn’t like to make a fuss. He doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. Mike’s favourite phrase, a phrase he stands by, a phrase for … Read the rest

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Leaving On Empty

  • by Tim Smith
  • Posted on 7th January 20197th January 2019
  • Poetry
Leaving Empty Hearted

Packing toys and terrible things

Into thin black plastic bags.

Throwing them into the sea of bins

A lifetime moved on

Ready to be emptied on Tuesday. 

Without her.

 

On to something else.

Something older.

 

The things that … Read the rest

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Barbara Fountain

  • by Tim Smith
  • Posted on 7th January 20197th January 2019
  • Poetry
Stop! It's Barbara Fountain

Here is Barbara Fountain
She is a culture shock
Moderately over-easy like many other breakfast flings
She slings the magazine away
And leaves the coffee, standing cold and objectionable
Then she exits the building
Rocking and rolling
Hippity hopping
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