Author: Simon Elmer

When we walked the streets in the cold From Shoreditch Church to City Hall Having gathered there at midday On the last day of January To demand a home to live in In the city we were born in Where were you when we marched for homes? When the London Evening Standard The night before … Continue reading When We Marched For Homes

This text, with the accompanying images projected, was performed at the conference on ‘The Mediated City’ held at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, Greenwich Peninsula, between 1-3 April, 2014. The performance was given on Wednesday, 2 April. The following day, Thursday 3 April, the geopoetry reading it introduced was conducted around Greenwich Peninsula. The main … Continue reading Geopoetry: Greenwich Peninsula

This poem was written in 2012 just after the London Olympics, for which I had left the country. As with the similar spectacles of the Queen’s Jubilee and the European Football Cup, I was struck, on my return to London, by how the streets and public spaces which the previous year had been the site … Continue reading The Nation’s Favourite Poem