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    Rupert Mallin's Podcast

    Drama, poetry, flash fiction, experimental, performance, factual musings.
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    Episodes (46)

    The Poet's Crimes

    The Poet's Crimes

    Half scripted, half improvised, the poet faces interrogation at the local cop shop. Was his poem in Pix 6 stolen and did anyone read Pix 6? Are all the poet's poems stolen anyway? And if he has stolen them, did he not then murder them? This is a Crime Busters fly-on-the-wall interrogation, not for the faint hearted.

    Rupert Mallin's Podcast
    en-gbDecember 13, 2022

    Interlude: a short poem

    Interlude: a short poem


    The picture restorer’s invoice

    Under honeysuckle sprays, a cinder path 

    runs up to the barn and around its brick footings


    to a thick archway of clipped privet, through which 

    lies the picture restorer’s door. He stands mixing 


    pigments with linseed oil, cleans brushes with turps

    and stares intently at the painting before him.


    A woman in rags looks up from the canvas 

    to feet she has tenderly washed. At night


    She licks a bowl in the stairwell’s shadow,

    left there for her wellbeing. As usual, her meal’s


    gruel. She is offered little but a goodnight kiss

    and willingly binds wounds for peach stones.


    Too soon the clatter of others’ laden breakfasts

    drowns out dawn chorus. She has washed


    his white dress, which has fallen from a nail

    at the focal centre of this period piece.


    A subtle tint of Western flesh turns her anguish

    into something warmer but expressionless.


    The craftsman clouds over with past’s varnish

    and wearily writes out an invoice for his work.


    Complete, he follows the cinder path round the barn,

    under the pink and fragrant canopy to the yard

     

    and lifts the latch to his terracotta tiled kitchen,

    where the smell of Arabica coffee greets him.

     

    His wife’s smile meets his. Her complexion 

    Is olive-skinned, a brunette, Middle Eastern. 


    He addresses an envelope, seals it with a lick,

    kisses his wife’s forehead and counts his blessings.

     

    Rupert Mallin's Podcast
    en-gbOctober 05, 2022

    My Long Apprenticeship in Playwriting 1 - Rupert Mallin

    My Long Apprenticeship in Playwriting 1 - Rupert Mallin

    I have written plays since 1980. Despite some success in the 1990s, work cut me off from my life-long interest after the crash of 2008. Whether my new plays find success or not, I love the process of writing for performance. Here is both my journey and some home-grown techniques I use in my writing. 

    Rupert Mallin's Podcast
    en-gbSeptember 23, 2020
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