Touched is a place for poetry, music and even the odd artwork, the online home of The Children, John Gibbens and Armorel Weston. Now the tipi is pitched in the deep south of London, between the Dulwich oaks, the Gipsy Hill and the Crystal Palace transmitter.Books | Music | Events | New work | Contact & Ordering | Links
A Song for Today
Click
the red button to hear.
The words are here:
Next Millennium
RECORDINGS
Albums
by The Children
and The Mind Shop,
featuring Armorel Weston
THE CHILDREN
video discography, youtube channel, galleries, biographies
John's spirit lives on through his work
Read his obituary in The Telegraph
Lay for the Day
Today’s
theme is…
The Battle of Waterloo.
Life insurance, sir?
WRITINGS
Books
and pamphlets
by John Gibbens
including The
Nightingale’s Code,
the
Inkjet Books
and Collected
Poems
The Children's two last videos on YouTube: Black
Mountain Home and Shady
Grove
Felt
Portraits
A tribute to the art of
’Asta Kristinsdóttir Wathen
The Improvised Vision
A gallerxy of musicians
Orpheus Ascending
by John Gibbens
A poem of the retrofuture“hauntingly captures the songs and rhythms of love and London”
Jenny McCartney
OTHER WORKS
Musical prose including
- Through the Iron Gates
Part 1, where ‘Brownsville Girl’ meets The Gunfighter- We Walk the Line
A rambler’s guide to the Dylans, Bob and Thomas (pdf)- Steady Rollin' Man
A revolutionary critique of Robert Johnson, with musical examplesMiscellaneous poems including
- The Gun Site An allotment poem: lines from the beginning of Spring
“No agitators, no clubs, no epidemical errors, ever were, or will be, fatal to social order in any nation. Nothing but the guilt of the upper classes, wanton, accumulated, reckless, and merciless, ever overthrows them. Of such guilt they have now much to answer for – let them look to it in time.” – Ruskin