Lyrical Life

Blues for Louis is a poem by Dublin poet and playwright Daniel Wade. Wade’s work has earned him many accolades and his most recent radio-drama garnered international acclaim and is a finalist in the ‘Best Digital Drama’ category at the 2020 NYF Radio Awar

it was shelter and purgatory at once. And just outside the sweat-glazed

wall and sloped doorway: a crushed rollie winked up from damp tarmac, a chip bag’s oily lure; as I waited blearily on a Nitelink for rescue, the bus stop

shimmered. Only men who work miracles are bored by them – but I knew, even then, that I was after hearing his jazz miracle, the stately darkness at his command.