Coffee House Poetry Night at The Troubadour, London 14 Dec 2015

I was invited by Anne Marie Fyfe to come down and read at The Troubadour, which is always a pleasure. The theme was "Winter".

I choose to read a poem I wrote called "Kunduz: Remembering Baynazar Mohammad Nazar".

It was a poem I wrote last week, after seeing a photograph taken by the photojournalist Andrew Quilty of the dead body of Baynazar Mohammad Nazar, he was being operated on at The Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan when it was bombed by the US as a result of human error. He was a husband and father of four. There is a fund going to raise money for the family he left behind.

I was glad to get to perform it, especially as it was so new.

Afterwards a lady came up to me and said "We needed a serious one. That was an important testimony".

That moved me to tears. I felt I'd done my job as a poet.