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Ian R Thorpe
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My career as a Management Consultant ended after I was paralysed by a brain haemorrhage 8 years ago (I'm almost fully recovered) It was an opportunity to return to my first and most cherished ambition, writing. I publish little, it seems unimportant now when I can find readers on the net, but I do occasionally write for newspapers and mags in the UK and also feature on radio programmes. It is far more important to me, having reached burn out once to do what I enjoy rather than that which I may gain materially from.
Writing influenced by Spike Milligan, Tom Sharpe, Steinbeck, Kafka and many others. Poets I like include Dylan Thomas, Tennyson, Browning, Andrew Marvell, Shelley, Ginsberg, Leonard Cohen, Sylvia Plath etc. etc. My fave poet in the whole world ever though is Janet Caldwell. To be quite honest I'm not sure it is just her writing that attracts me. (How's that for wearing my heart on my sleeve Janny-babes. And me an emotionally retarded Englishman too.)
My current project is the building of a Multi Media site to feature verse, prose (fiction and non fiction,) writing on travel, art, nature, and philosophy all available in Audio, Video and text. Its a big job. With categories for fiction, poetry, and article categories ranging climate change and debt crisis to religion, faith and belief there should be plenty of reading for all tastes.
New op - ed site <http://www.dailystirrer.com/">The Daily Stirrer</a> is now online
Birth Place: Manchester, United Kingdom
Accomplishments: I keep getting my arse kicked for not promoting myself enough, so:
Ian Thorpe has won writing awards for poetry, fiction and factual journalism.
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Books
| | Dimensions of Mystery by Ian R Thorpe
Dimensions of Mystery is a collection of stories that explore the darker side of human relationships, not just our relationships with each other but with nature and those forces that are beyong human understanding. The stories explore the most powerful emotions, love, hate, lust, fear, envy and arrogance. We see how hubris can lead us to disaster, how madness can warp the mind so it can commit the...
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Free e-book. A Memoir of Recovery, the medical professions wrote me off, it sounds heavy but is good fun - read the reviews. Will be out in paperback late in 2004 but if you can't wait I am now in the process of loading it as 20 stories here at AD. Download each as they come online or read here.
Update; DEC 2, 2004 The Book will be on sale next week. Return to this page for details of where to...
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| A Two Faced Poet by Ian R Thorpe
Publication of thes muilti media collectof 45 poems has been delayed due to technical difficulties with the publisher (they are not geared up for true multi - media and I do not think background music in midi format and short video clips are really adequate for today's market.
The collection will appear early in 2004 through a different publisher.
Meanwhile I will continure building a prev...
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Short Stories
The Vegetarian Shoemaker Of Barking by Ian R Thorpe
A mix of fiction and satire here from the pages of Boggart Blog. Some of you might have wondered why I spend little time on Authorsden and why I seldom get around to leaving comments.
Well Boggart...
What the Dickens by Ian R Thorpe
A repost - for some reason the body of the text would not display before.
This is a pastiche of the style of Charles Dickens but takes a less sentimental view of what london lufe might have been l...
Psycho Benefit Fraud by Ian R Thorpe
When the Boggart Blog team read about a New York man who dressed in his mothers clothes to commit benefit fraud they had to do their own take on the story. And boiggart Blog being Boggart Blog that in...
Dimensions of Love by Ian R Thorpe
This is the first story in the Collection "Dimensions of Mystery" which is included on the "Ashless Fire" CD (see my books for info)
Love is the most powerful emotion, but when a powerful love is ...
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 1 by Ian R Thorpe
Chapter One of my memoir of the early stages of recovery from a life - threatening brain haemorrhage that left me paralysed on the left side. Other chapters will follow at regular intervals.
At th...
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 7 by Ian R Thorpe
Getting toward halfway now - as usual I will remind you previous chapters are in my stories menu...
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 19 by Ian R Thorpe
The final chapter. To revisit chapter 18 or go back to the start of the book use the links at the beginning....
The Stranger's Field by Ian R Thorpe
This tale of medieval weirdness tells of a village tyrant and bully who terrorises villagers. Even in our spohisticated modern world people can be oppressed by a bullying boss, an overpearing parent o...
Mr. Wilde's Farewell(weirdness) by Ian R Thorpe
Another Halloween season trip to the top of the list for this whacky ghost story which won an award for short fiction in 2002.
The last bar in London in which electronic entertasinment has re...
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 18 by Ian R Thorpe
Use the lionks at the top and bottom of the chapter to move back or forward....
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 17 by Ian R Thorpe
Use links at the beginning and end to navigate this FREE e-book
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A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 16 by Ian R Thorpe
All previous chapters in this free e-book are available from the menu....
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 15 by Ian R Thorpe
Use links at start and end to navigate through this FREE e-book...
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 13 by Ian R Thorpe
Preceding chapters are available in the menu. The rest of the book is coming online at regular intervals....
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 9 by Ian R Thorpe
If you are new to this serialisation find earlier chapters in the left hand menu....
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 10 by Ian R Thorpe
The latest chapter in the book. The full text will be available online here as a free e-book just as soon as I have prepared all chapters for AD presentation...
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 11 by Ian R Thorpe
Sorry about the break in postings, been filming. As usual, newcomers to this partwork can find earlier chapters in the stories menu....
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 12 by Ian R Thorpe
Usual note, preceding chapters are all available in my stories menu...
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 14 by Ian R Thorpe
Earlier Chapters are available through the stories menu....
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 8 by Ian R Thorpe
As usual I remind you that earlier chapters are alredy posted as seperate stories. These postings will build into the full book over the next few weeks....
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 6 by Ian R Thorpe
Links at the top point tprevious chapter and the beginning. Jump to next chapter with the link at the end....
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 5 by Ian R Thorpe
Use links at the top to go back to previous chapter or the beginning. Link at end moves to next chapter....
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 4 by Ian R Thorpe
Go back to:...
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 2 by Ian R Thorpe
If you are a newcomer to this free e-book here at author's den, earlier chapters are listed in my "stories" menu. Deatails about the book and an intro are provided in "my books" together with details...
A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 3 by Ian R Thorpe
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Poetry
Doctor, Doctor by Ian R Thorpe
As governments try to ramp up their fear and panic campaign over the relitively mild Swine Flue virus to distract us from other things it seems a good time to revive this oldie.
I’m not asham...
Beloved Succubus (audio version of Gothic horror poem) by Ian R Thorpe
There seems to be quite a fad for Vampires, Werewolves, ghosts and monsters at the moment no wonder beloved Succubus is my most popular poem at AD. Its just a love story about an undead girl seeking a...
You Just Can't Be Too Paranoid by Ian R Thorpe
Just for fun and because I love conspiracy theories. But just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they are not out to get you. With more invasions of privacy from internet operators like Google ...
The Aspirational by Ian R Thorpe
Are we controlled by our possessions. I like to think I'm not but The Aspirational is to help people decide where their lives are.
Hope you like the switch to minor key (indicated by lighter tyup...
THEM (poem noir) by Ian R Thorpe
Living in the surveillance society. Governments keep announcing plans to increase the surveillance ability of security forces, the latest outrage being the proposal that military drones of the kind us...
Dreams Die First by Ian R Thorpe
With a title taken from a Harold Robbins book and a lyric that owes something to Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen and Jaques Brel this piece tells something of the culture of expectation and entitleme...
A Chronicle of Decay by Ian R Thorpe
In line with my other most recent poetry postings this is not so much a poem as a dramatic monologue (the rhymes occur in funny places). It looks at the decay of western civilization as we abandon tra...
Statistics, Graphs and Hockey Sticks by Ian R Thorpe
The politicians and academics of "climate science" are screaming about saving the planet. It is very plain however that all their ideas involve the already mega rich making lots of money and us poor p...
The Secret of Invisibility by Ian R Thorpe
I decided to trot this oldie out again as we are marking disability awareness week or something over here.
The poem describes my situation some years ago....
The Abyss by Ian R Thorpe
Freidreich Neitzsche wrote, "When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Love is a bit like that, as this little poem observes....
Pigs WILL Fly by Ian R Thorpe
A polemic in my strongly but irregularly rhymed monologues style. A rant against the control freakery of scientists and the science community....
The Dinner Plates of Old England (humour) by Ian R Thorpe
You have all had enough of Nanny State nagging about health, diet, eating sensibly and five a day. English stomachs are under attack, we have been invaded by all manner of foreign food and now the gov...
Feel The Burn by Ian R Thorpe
Climate change, schlimate change, the scientists lied. That does not mean we're out of tr sustaiableouble, we are still consuming more and more, resources are finite and wind turbines aren't. Fossil...
Chasing Bubbles by Ian R Thorpe
As the world sinks into economic depression we are just jumping through hoops as politicians and economists try to create sanother financial bubble. This poem uses the metaphore of a prostitute to des...
The Churches Are Burning by Ian R Thorpe
Our world is changing so fast it is leaving behind everything that makes us what we are. A mix of humanist and pagan, ancient and modern symbols here as we are shown careering towards an underworld of...
Rude Food by Ian R Thorpe
There are huge arguments about sex education in schools with faith groups going head to head against progressive thinkers - somehow though cooking has quietly slipped off the curriculum in many places...
Firuza Let Your Hair Fall Free. by Ian R Thorpe
Another song lyric. This time its about cross - culture love between a Muslim girl and a Christian boy and the conflict between his libral values and those of her family. She is not the only woman to ...
Holy City. by Ian R Thorpe
The temples of Mammon are on fire. As they burn this poem, a performance piece, seems more prescient than ever. It is ironic that the politicians, bankers and bond traders who thought they could creat...
Sonnet For Mr. Edwards. by Ian R Thorpe
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing as Alexander Pope said and the fact that my Englidh teacher in 1963 knew a little about writing sonnets turned out to be dangerous for me. When I wrote a sonnet...
Bitter Fruit (social comment) by Ian R Thorpe
Climate change science lies in ruins after the Climategate scandal, recor low winter temperatures are recorded in Britain as snow covers the nation, ice storms bring maany European nations to a near s...
There's A Lot Of It About! (satire) by Ian R Thorpe
Politically correct fascists, equal rights hustlers, thought police, bureaucrats with forms, bankers, government inspectors, doctors, scientists, health and safety officers... it seems whatever you wa...
Prozac by Ian R Thorpe
This old poem took on a new significance a while ago - didn't it Janny?
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Fingers by Ian R Thorpe
Fingers has been here before but this time it is as a promo for my upcoming CD release. The picture is a still from the rather gruesome video....
Where Did All The Money Go by Ian R Thorpe
A little ditty about the financial crisis. Does recycling and cutting back save anything or relieve poverty I wonder or does it cost more to recycle? Nothing to do with the poem, just a thought....
Songs of Glory (anti - war) by Ian R Thorpe
A poem about the pointlessness of war whether the cause be religion or politics. Governments always work the partiotism scam on us but is there really anything noble about dying for one's country, fl...
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Articles
UK Prime Minister Is Made A Caganer by Ian R Thorpe
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been given an unusual accolade. This year his face will be one of those used on the Caganers, figures that are an essential part of Christmas Nativity tableaux in the C...
Education: Pupils To Be Rewarded For Healthy Eating by Ian R Thorpe
The ideas proposed by government officials to persuade children to eat more healthily just keep getting whackier. The justification is it will save the NHS money by improving health and recucing obesi...
Stone Throwing Chimp Shocks Scientists by Ian R Thorpe
Will humans always be the most intelligent life form? Can our position be usurped as other animals evolve to replace us at the top of the food chain? It seems possible as a chimp in a Swedish Zoo show...
The Method, The Madge and The Myth Of Eternal Life. by Ian R Thorpe
Madonna's personal trainer is the latest fitness expert to offer advice for a price on how to lose weight and be healthy. Do we need it?...
How Iceland went bankrupt - A Boggart Blog explainer by Ian R Thorpe
Eighteen months ago we were writing about Iceland, a small nation but once upon a time a solvent one, went bankrupt. Our politicians have not learned and at the G20 economic summit nations are divided...
Big New Idea From America That Will Not Save The Planet by Ian R Thorpe
Scientists are very clever people but somehow they never seem to see the big picture. Here is another demonstration of this trait....
Never Let Me Go - A Dystopian Prophecy by Ian R Thorpe
A review of a horror movie that is made all the more disturbing by the lack of blood and guts....
Don't Google It by Ian R Thorpe
Are we becoming too reliant on computers and the internet and what is the point of having at our fingertips so much poor quality information?
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Did You See That by Ian R Thorpe
Did you see that is a different perspective on UFO sightings. Cryptozoology would you believe?...
Before We Forget How To Be. by Ian R Thorpe
Is the pace of modern life causing us to lose one of our most important abilities?...
Shocking Revelation: michael Jackson and barack Obama The Same Person by Ian R Thorpe
Another satirical post from Boggart Blog, Britain's top comedy blog. Thankfully in Britain we are not easily conned into worshipping self proclaimed Messiahs. Instead we subject them to ridicule and ...
Scientists Have Doubts About Doomsday Machine by Ian R Thorpe
A story about the Large Hadron Collider, the so called Doomsday machine kicked off controversy about cutting edge science again this week....
My Problem With God by Ian R Thorpe
Let me say before I start, there is only one God I have a problem with, the God of the Bible fundamentalists, the great celestial puppet master whom they would have us believe is pulling everybody's ...
A Banana A Day Is More Dangerous Than Fukushima by Ian R Thorpe
A lot of people are worried by what is being written about the burn out at Fukushima. The dangers of radiation from commercial poer plants are grossly exaggerated by pusillanimous poltroons who want u...
Happy Health And Safety Bonfire Night by Ian R Thorpe
America celebrates Halloween, in Britain it was banned by Oliver Cromwell who gave us Guy Fawkes night instead. Recently health and safety concerns have led to all the fun being regulated out of Guy ...
Our Debt To Islam. by Ian R Thorpe
Muslims are people like us, tickle them, do they not laugh, prick them, do they not bleed. And there is een a Supermuslim, an Islamic superhero ...
A Career In Substance Abuse? Sounds Just The Job For Me. by Ian R Thorpe
It isn't often we stumble on a dream job like the one found in a publiic sector recruitment supplement this week. No criminal activity involved, very little work. Drug testing and snail science are a...
The President's Letter Home by Ian R Thorpe
A little British - style satire. Sorry about the colloquialisms, I picked up the style from watching the Beverly Hillbillies Dubya's visit to the Court of St. James....
Women In Labour (not pregnancy but political satire) by Ian R Thorpe
The UK Labour party, nominally a social democratic political movement has always had a tendency towards authoritarianism and as such attracts a particularly humourless type of activist. They are obses...
Christmas Day In The Workhouse by Ian R Thorpe
Prepare to shed a tear....
How Saddam May Yet Win The War by Ian R Thorpe
Controversial I know, but many of us outside America are very worried at the glossy spin the U.S. media puts on world events. Take Obama and the Lockerbie bomber for example. Obie's faux outrage at u...
Diana - The Unasked Questions by Ian R Thorpe
The anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales has just passed. Far from beig solved the mysteries surrounding her death deepen....
Liberals Complain McCains Jokes Are Not Funny But... by Ian R Thorpe
Complaints from the political correctness police that John McCain's jokes are racist, sexist and otherwise politically incorrect should be dismissed. All the prominent figures in the Obama camp have ...
Don't Be Evil - Unless There's Money In It. by Ian R Thorpe
What's in a business slogan? Not much it appears. As Google becomes increasingly manipualtive and control freaky people are starting to see the threat the web poses to society....
The World’s Fattest Fighting Men. by Ian R Thorpe
A whacky look at one of the more trivial news stories of the week....
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News
Seasons Greetings by Ian R Thorpe
a message for my trackers...
Poetry Life and Times Interviews Janet Caldwell by Ian R Thorpe
My favourite task ever....
Ian Thorpe on Christian Radio. Unbelieveable by Ian R Thorpe
But not as odd as it sounds, I was there to provide a non - christian POV in a discussion of where the church stands today....
Season's Greetings by Ian R Thorpe
Not really news but.......
July Poetry Life and Times by Ian R Thorpe
New Issue Online now...
Poetry Life and Times by Ian R Thorpe
Poetry Magazine...
Ian's Audio online at last (specially for halloween) by Ian R Thorpe
I promised some audio tracks almost a year ago....
Multi - Media and poetry - the future by Ian R Thorpe
Ian's interview at PLT...
The Sceadugengan by Ian R Thorpe
Ian Thorpe announces Greenteeth network (You can work the title out for yourselves.)...
Ian's blog rises from the ashes by Ian R Thorpe
The blog revived...
New Solstice Poetry Set Unveiled by Ian R Thorpe
Announcement...
Free e-book now being made available at AD by Ian R Thorpe
A serialisation...
A Blog Revolution by Ian R Thorpe
Relaunch of my blog as a vehicle for comedy...
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Simply the UKs top comedy blog. Consistently funny.
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Poetry Life And Times
Politics, business, religion, media, showbiz, everything, you should never be surprised at the tricks of those greedy for money, fame and power. Read this blog where LITTLE NICKY MACHIAVELLI TELLS IT LIKE IT IS.
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ianrthorpe.gather.com
more fun with this very lively web2 site.
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boggart blog
probably the funniest blog in the world, but the humour is not for the faint hearted.
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Additional information
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| After two years in which personal projects have kept me busy away from the web for most of the time I am now working on a bleeeding edge creative arts site to be called GreenteethMM. This is not a comment on the standard of dentistry in Britain (I have to say my dentist is excellent and so are my teeth) but a weird and wonderful multi-media pleasure dome beneath the surface of an algae covered bog. Jenny Greenteeth is a boggart or water spirit who drags unwary travellers into her mysterious lair, from whence they never return. My visitors will have plenty of lifesavers to grab however once they have crossed into the land beneath the bog they may never want to leave. |
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