Welcome to my Poetical Works – Rock / Performance poetry, flash fictions, short stories, poetic song lyrics. You will find below links to my free and downloadable ebooks.
“Trev Teasdel’s totally unique musings, dada surrealist observations and pithy stream of consciousness. There is often a grain of something profound that resonates. He’s a word-juggler, verb prancer and a conjurer of imagery that makes you frequently smile or even laugh out loud.” Al Savage – Songwriter, Poet and Musician.
He is a poetry gangsta
Shooting words from the hip
Spouting wine, sending words to sip
He’s got a pen
Inked and loaded
Goaded by Trump
And other misguided
Missiles, he’s riled
Anger undisguised
Its his posse style.
Sarah Boon – Radio Stockton Presenter.
See About for Trev’s background.
Follow Trev on Medium https://medium.com/@trevor.teasdel
The books are also available on 2 other platforms as digital Flip books.
Holograms From the Lilac Canopy The first of 13 books written on Facebook and other social media published 2015. Consists performance poems, surreal / humourous and poetic flashing fictions and stories. Read or download the free PDF book here https://www.artsrainbow.com/trevteasdelpoet/2021/02/19/holograms-from-the-lilac-canopy-by-trev-teasdel/
APPLE DUMPLING TOWN – An impressionistic series of semi-surreal cityscape scenarios or poetic fictions. An Indie-Poet Production 2003. A new compilation of under the theme Apple Dumpling Town.
JAZZ TOWN – Spoken Word and Music album and book. Selection of work set to my guitar or bass guitar. Click the link to the Jazz Town page to view the PDF book and the Bandcamp player for the musical versions. “This is Jazz Town. The melody of the rain, Trumpets of improvised images rain down. Maple Leaf or make believe, could reality be this absurd!” https://www.artsrainbow.com/trevteasdelpoet/2021/02/18/jazz-town-by-trev-teasdel/
OCTOPODUS – (LOCKDOWN NOVELLA) published 2020. Written over 16 days, a chapter a day on Facebook. A strange and exciting story, influenced by the beginning of John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row and written in a stream of consciousness style with motifs in the form of the Octopi and the Terrapin obliquely representing what was going on at the time. Click the link to read or download the book and links to Bandcamp with a musical / aural version of the book.” “Red rusted ships, the smell of fish that rose on the wind from the docks,” https://www.artsrainbow.com/trevteasdelpoet/2021/02/03/octopodus-a-lockdown-novella-by-trev-teasdel/
LEMON DRIZZLE AVENUE Publish 2022. Newest book. Click link to view or download free pdf version of the book. Titles include Paprika Street, Snack Bar Morning, Walk in Friday, All My Houses Are Drunk, Apple Juice Way, Up On Easby Moor, Nicky had The Soft Touch, Lantern Lane, Mad Planet. https://www.artsrainbow.com/trevteasdelpoet/2022/12/17/lemon-drizzle-avenue-by-trev-teasdel/
CITY OF DREAMERS The latest book 2022 of poetic fictions. Click the link to view or download the book or for further information.
Titles include Anaïs, My Life as a Circus Horse, Not a Cluedo, The Blues in the Moonlight, A Résumé For Lydia, Botticelli Italiano, Ratsville, Streets Never Go Straight, Forgotten Films. https://www.artsrainbow.com/trevteasdelpoet/2022/06/02/city-of-dreamers-by-trev-teasdel/
The BRIDGE AT ANGROVE published April 2022. “In the Winter Apple boulevards with scrumpy cider clouds the Bilberry Bramley omnibuses are belching to a halt. In the raincoat-hatted bus stops” Click the link to view or download the book or for further information. https://www.artsrainbow.com/trevteasdelpoet/2022/04/15/the-bridge-at-angrove-by-trev-teasdel/
APRICOT SUNDAY Published July 2021.” Holy fuck, the clocks slept in – sprawled over the wall like a Dali sketch – even the digitals were buffering and burping on low coffee levels.” Click the link to view or download the book or for further information. https://www.artsrainbow.com/trevteasdelpoet/2021/02/12/apricot-sunday-by-trev-teasdel/
LILYPAD STATION Published 2021. “Clarissa tested positive for sex appeal, lockdown had put her in a strange position, she looked out of her curtains at the makeshift homeless shelters built out of reinforced toilet roll tubes” Click the link to view or download the book or for further information https://www.artsrainbow.com/trevteasdelpoet/2021/02/03/lilypad-station-by-trev-teasdel/
The DAWN CHORUS OF A RURAL REBEL. Published in 2020. “I grew up in Bookcase Street, in a 3 bed-room bookend, sentenced to verbosity, but don’t quote me on that.” Click the link to view or download the book or for further information. https://www.artsrainbow.com/trevteasdelpoet/2021/02/03/the-dawn-chorus-of-a-rural-warrior-by-trev-teasdel/
Monsieur Sauvignon Published 2020.The work is largely inspired by the names or wines and spirits” “In the apple-dumpling streets in the Brussel-sprout winter, neon flashing umbrellas reflect
thunderstruck window-shoppers with cling film
clothing sticking to skin” Click the link to view or download the book or for further information. https://www.artsrainbow.com/trevteasdelpoet/2021/01/28/monsieur-sauvignon-by-trev-teasdel/
OFF THE RAILS Published 2019. “It’s hard to know when I went of the rails, I could never think in straight lines, I took the detours, the tangents. They said leave school, get a job, buy a car, a house, marry, consume, invest and save, grow old gracefully, that was the plan.” Click the link to view or download the book or for further information. https://www.artsrainbow.com/trevteasdelpoet/2021/01/28/off-the-rails-book-by-trev-teasdel/
A Cheap Novel in a Backstreet Charity Shop Published 2019. “Your name is Saxon Picasso, your food is the love of a painted lady, polyphonic, vamping, colourful, semi-surreal. You wear a top hat with white rabbits for brains, and a suit of autumn leaves. You play for the symphonium sky and Brazilian braziers and Parisienne bras.” Click the link to view or download the book or for further information. https://www.artsrainbow.com/trevteasdelpoet/2021/01/28/a-cheap-novel-in-a-backstreet-charity-shop-by-trev-teasdel/
Born in Atlantis Published in 2018. “Tom thumbed a ride across Desolation UK, sleeping in alleys and shop doorways with spikes. The cops stole his sleeping bag and fracked him until he shook with cold..” Click the link to view or download the book or for further information. https://www.artsrainbow.com/trevteasdelpoet/2021/01/28/born-in-atlantis-by-trev-teasdel/
The Lost Scrolls of the Apekalypse Published 2018. “Moneyfact lived in a brown worn out wallet in Tango Town and slept on a Visa card in the orange light of a Tango Town night. There were a few of them in the wallet sharing food with straws.”
Click the link to view or download the book or for further information. https://www.artsrainbow.com/trevteasdelpoet/2021/01/28/the-lost-scrolls-of-the-apekalypse-by-trev-teasdel/
Picasso’s Secret Cafe and the Planet of Debt Published 2016. “Joey Quantum came on like a wave-form but posed as a particle when the press were present. He’d do his double slit trick but ended up in some parallel dimension after a comedy of errors
brought him to his knees. Soon..”
EARLY CHAP BOOKS UPDATED AS E BOOKS
The Escaped Poet My first publication, published in 1984 as a physical chapbook by The Poetic Licence Collective and revised and added into as a PDF / ebook in 2021. It contains lyrics poems and stories and graphics. “One day Poetry jumped down from the shelf, tore itself free from the books it was contained in, formed itself into a Union
called ‘Poetry alive’..”
Poet Reprobate This was my second book, first published as a physical chapbook by the Poetic Licence Collective 1985 and revised and added in to as a PDF / ebook in 2021. Consists of early material written in the 70’s and 80’s. “Is this it, the final handshake, the last goodbye? Have they finally decided not to tolerate my ability not to be manipulated by their system but in-
stead manipulate it to my own needs?” Click the link to view or download the book or for further information. https://www.artsrainbow.com/trevteasdelpoet/2021/01/28/poet-reprobate-book-by-trev-teasdel/
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Currently a website – view here
https://trevteasdellyrics.blogspot.com/
but a book version is forth coming!
The Cannon Hill Park Soliloquy – Extended performance poem / sequence originally performed live with music at various venues in the early 1980’s in Sheffield Art College, Middlesbrough Town Hall, Stockton Dovecot Arts Centre, Darlington Arts Centre, Guisborough Tocket’s Mill and more and set in Birmingham’s Cannon Hill Park with a surreal but anti-war theme.
SONGS FROM THE COVENTRY UNDERGROUND CD
Broadgate Gnome Label 2007
Consists of 17 of Trev’s songs written in the 70’s and 80’s and recorded at time of writing on Cassette or later Portastudio and digitally cleaned and remastered.
The CD and downloads were originally available on Amazon US and iTunes but now available on the website Europe.
ALSO working on some other books –
Tales of a Gold Miner – Margaret Weir (Poet, Creative Writing Tutor, Leader of the Phoenix Poets, Co-editor of Outlet and Mother).
Orange-Aid – Ann Wainwright (Poet, editor of Poetic Licence, Station Identification, Co -organiser of the Castalians and New Poetry Scene at the Dovecot Arts Centre Stockton and a co-organiser of the The Writers Café at the Georgian Theatre Stockton, and Mother)
LIVE VIDEOS
Trev Teasdel live at the Writers Café, Georgian Theatre, Stockton on Tees, 2006 – 4 performance poetry tracks Sin City, Dance and R & B, Streetbattle and Stereophonic London. All in the book Nightfall in sorrento except Streetbattle (Heed the word) which is in Escaped Poet – both book on this site.
Trev – Live performance at The Cutty Bang Cabaret at the Music Lounge in Stockton on Tees September 2017