Biography

Based in Bolton, Sarah Crowther is an Art Teacher and sometimes performer at Write Out Loud in Bolton. Nationally published and shortlisted in the Keats Shelly Prize 2008.

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Samples

Recipe For Neglect

Take one small child
Perfect, new, naked.
Leave it to cry for three hours
Never read it a book
Don’t take it to the dentist
Never give moral guidance
Or wash its clothes.
Shout and scream in equal measure.
Let it stew in its own juices
Season with bitter indifference
Then send it to school.



You’re A Bad Man

You’re a bad man
A great big bear of a bad man
My number one fan
But still a bad man

You’re a quiet thinker
A brooding, sultry, quiet thinker
A bit of a drinker
But I like a thinker.

Stop doing that.
You know what I mean
I can see your thoughts
And they’re none too clean
Because you’re a bad man
A great big bear of a bad man

You’re broken goods
Self inflicted broken goods
You’re not out of the woods
My broken goods.

You’re crushed inside
Bruised and hurt and crushed inside
There’s no where to hide
That you’re crushed inside

I’ve told you once
I won’t say it again
I can see your thoughts
So weak are men
Especially when... you’re a bad man
A great big bear of a bad man.

Still, I like having a fan.

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