Ian Wedd, writer and performer

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  • Blind Date – a sketch

    Blind Date – a sketch

    A blind date does not go according to plan

    January 11, 2018
  • Crime Zone – a sketch

    Crime Zone – a sketch

    Forecasts and updates on London’s crime scene

    January 11, 2018
  • Science Trip – a sketch

    Science Trip – a sketch

    A boarding school science trip does not go well

    January 11, 2018
  • Inconsequential Mastermind – a sketch

    Inconsequential Mastermind – a sketch

    Like the popular quiz show but with questions about the mundane and every day.

    January 10, 2018
  • Babysitter – a sketch

    Babysitter – a sketch

    A sketch for two men and one woman about a cruel deceit inflicted on a babysitter.

    January 8, 2018
  • Off Plan – a sketch

    Off Plan – a sketch

    A keen angel is given a simple job at Christmas. She blows it by being just a bit too enthusiastic.

    January 8, 2018
  • A video for a carol service

    A video for a carol service

    A video opener for the Christchurch Clifton Christmas carol service 2016.

    January 8, 2018
  • Sunflowers

    Sunflowers

    A poem inspired by the love and kindness that we have received in abundance since my wife Jo was diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2017.

    January 1, 2018
  • Arusha W14

    Arusha W14

    Many, many years ago I went to Arusha in Tanzania with a friend who had a Fairtrade connection with some artists out there. It was my first visit to a ‘poorer nation’ and I was quite affected by the poverty I saw and the contrast with the West. We met a young woman (from Hammersmith,…

    December 21, 2017
  • Flower

    Flower

    A poem I wrote in 1998

    December 20, 2017
  • A poem for Advent 2011

    A poem for Advent 2011

    This was written for an Advent service at Trent Vineyard church in Nottingham

    December 20, 2017
  • The cancer haiku trilogy

    The cancer haiku trilogy

    Three haikus I wrote during our cancer journey.

    December 20, 2017
  • Christmas 2017

    Christmas 2017

    A simple sonnet as an opener for the Christchurch Clifton carol services 2017.

    December 10, 2017
  • Cancer

    Cancer

    In July 2017 my wife, Jo, was diagnosed with breast cancer. At one stage they were scanning to see if there were any secondaries, a whole more serious and life shortening diagnosis. I began this poem in the midst of the agonising period of waiting for scan results.

    July 19, 2017
  • Cornwall interrupted

    Cornwall interrupted

    Holidays can be times of great peace. Or not…

    May 21, 2017
  • The Caller

    The Caller

    A poem about connections and how we can miss them.

    May 13, 2017
  • The choice

    The choice

    I wrote a poem for our Maundy Thursday service at Christ Church Clifton.

    March 11, 2017
  • That year

    That year

    A poem for the Christmas carol service at Christ Church Clifton 2016.

    December 13, 2016
  • Christmas 2015

    Christmas 2015

    A poem for the Christ Church Clifton Christmas carol service 2015.

    December 13, 2015
  • Moments

    Moments

    I wrote this poem for a Trent Vineyard Maundy Thursday service in 2012

    April 1, 2012
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