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London in poems and prose

Can art by accident be bred – And if it were would Art be...

Writing a poem to help writer’s block (caught in lockdown)

Mulberry madness

The invisible source of the Thames

The endless journey of the Thames

Puck avenges A Midsummer Night’s Dream (poem)

Ignatius Sancho, a poem

Death and the Yew tree

The world’s oldest tree

The magic of slime in the Thames

The morgue at the end of the street

The rough sleepers of Victoria Street

Thanks for rebuilding our website!

The railway that ran dead on time

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When the tide goes out – up come London’s buried memories

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The Victorian prison they found underneath my road this week

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Why Shakespeare left 52 Pall Mall

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The lost past of St James’s Park station

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    Can art by accident be bred – And if it were would Art be dead?

    by Vic Keegan 17/01/2021
    by Vic Keegan 17/01/2021

    This has been running on a computer 24/7 for over 20 years in an attempt to get an algorithm to replicate a two line poem as a small contribution to…

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    Writing a poem to help writer’s block (caught in lockdown)

    by Vic Keegan 30/11/2020
    by Vic Keegan 30/11/2020

    UNTIL it hit me it was just a joke Something that happened to other folk If it happened at all And I was not just in thrawl To some confected…

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    Mulberry madness

    by Vic Keegan 26/09/2020
    by Vic Keegan 26/09/2020

    What3Words.com locates any space of 3m square using only three words. As lockdown therapy I hesitantly tried a poem which contains a 3 word location (in the right order!) so…

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    The invisible source of the Thames

    by Vic Keegan 16/08/2020
    by Vic Keegan 16/08/2020

    Poem: The Thames at source I went to a shrine without compare To see a river that wasn’t there We strolled from the station forecourt at Kemble Where walkers, like…

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    The endless journey of the Thames

    by Vic Keegan 10/07/2020
    by Vic Keegan 10/07/2020

    The Thames Flow London is curiously at ease, Invaded twice daily from overseas But the Thames knows Where it goes Its tide with the moon communes Mornings and afternoons Changing…

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    Puck avenges A Midsummer Night’s Dream (poem)

    by Vic Keegan 03/07/2020
    by Vic Keegan 03/07/2020

    Scene 1 Puck If we shadows have offended . . . Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends. Stage blacks out and the lights…

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    Ignatius Sancho, a poem

    by Vic Keegan 19/06/2020
    by Vic Keegan 19/06/2020

    Poem Sancho’s shop in Westminster in the 1760s In Charles Street there used to be a shop Where many a celebrity was won’t to stop To buy sugar, baccy and…

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    Death and the Yew tree

    by Vic Keegan 02/06/2020
    by Vic Keegan 02/06/2020

    Poem Yew Most country folk will tell you all If you cut one down bad luck will befall In churchyards their seductive leaves are spread See how they thrive among…

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    The world’s oldest tree

    by Vic Keegan 22/05/2020
    by Vic Keegan 22/05/2020

    Ode to a newly urbanised tree Of all the trees that nature has endowed There’s one alone outshines the crowd Its name is Ginkgo (culled from the Greek) Its history…

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    The magic of slime in the Thames

    by Vic Keegan 22/04/2020
    by Vic Keegan 22/04/2020

                LET’S MEET the commuters of London Town But not the humans of dubious renown Who flood daily across the capital With faces pale and…

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    The morgue at the end of the street

    by Vic Keegan 26/03/2020
    by Vic Keegan 26/03/2020

    Victoria, 6am (first day of lockdown) Road sweepers emerge in line From goodness knows where A convoy of refuse vehicles Files across Lambeth Bridge No-one is ready to admit defeat…

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    The rough sleepers of Victoria Street

    by Vic Keegan 24/03/2020
    by Vic Keegan 24/03/2020

    Christchurch Gardens, Victoria Street How easy it is to pass them by Excuses fall willingly from the sky The charities speak with one voice They claim that some are homeless…

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    Thanks for rebuilding our website!

    by Vic Keegan 20/03/2020
    by Vic Keegan 20/03/2020

    Thanks for rebuilding our website! This is a little thank you to Rainmakrr for kindly rebuilding our site in such a fab way! If you are looking for a new…

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    The railway that ran dead on time

    by Vic Keegan 08/03/2020
    by Vic Keegan 08/03/2020

    London History – The railway that ran dead on time This is a redundant track from the former Necropolis Railway which ferried dead bodies from Waterloo to Woking. Now that…

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    Hackney’s open street art

    by Vic Keegan 21/09/2019
    by Vic Keegan 21/09/2019

    Hackney’s open street art It is Open House this weekend except at Beck Road in Hackney where it is Open Street. The road, consisting of two almost eerily uniform rows…

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    Waterloo – the bridge that killed off a rival

    17/11/2018
  • The island in the middle of Westminster

    24/05/2013
  • 3

    A real hidden gem – Henry V111’s wine cellar

    11/07/2017
  • 4

    London’s Historic Pineapples

    31/08/2015
  • 5

    When the tide goes out – up come London’s buried memories

    01/05/2014
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    The Victorian prison they found underneath my road this week

    18/04/2014
  • Why Shakespeare left 52 Pall Mall

    04/07/2013
  • 8

    Trafalgar Square to Margate – without crossing a road

    04/10/2015
  • 9

    The lost past of St James’s Park station

    10/07/2019
  • 10

    London’s Top 5 medieval buildings

    17/11/2016

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About Victor

Victor Keegan was born in the outer reaches of suburbia in Raynes Park and now lives centrally in Victoria. A long serving Guardian journalist and described in the Observer as a “cult poet” he often walks the streets seeking ideas. London My London, his 5th poetry book, https://amzn.to/2OKXi2f covers life from birth amidst the bombs of the Second World War to his belated discovery of London’s hidden history.  He is married with two children

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