Congratulations to UK poetry scene stalwart (and regular IS&T contributor) Geoff Stevens who has just been awarded The Ted Slade Award for Services to Poetry for 2009. Geoff adds "I must be doing something right." Here's a new poem by Geoff...


PLASTIC HERO
 
you were Superman once
but your credit card has turned to kryptonite
and you no longer have the power
of unlimited spending
lie paralysed now in your one-room apartment
scanning the free newspaper through horn-rims
looking for employment
 
Lois meanwhile
having been made redundant from Woolworths
is out looking for another caped crusader
with a weakness for maidens in distress


* Geoff Stevens