Hello. My name is Nick Goodall.
I'm also known as 'The Bard of Broadstairs'.
Next performances
Take a break from The Official Broadstairs Folk Week ®, and join us for a pint or three at The Chapel Bar and Bookshop, Broadstairs this August and enjoy half an hour or so of light poetry with the Bard, and a very talented (and very funny) special guest poet. 6.30pm. Free admission. Dogs welcome. Beer available.
EXTRA SHOW! Friday 8 Open Mic with the Bard
Saturday 9 Chris Matthewman
Sunday 10 Richard Allen
Monday 11 Aaron Barschak
Tuesday 12 Heather Moulson
Wednesday 13 Jack Shamash
Thursday 14 Heather Mary Sullivan
Friday 15 The Bard of Broadstairs Solo Show
A recent poem
"This is David Dunn"
Six months after David Dunn
Stacked cricket bats and golf clubs
Walking sticks and five or so
silent sticky radios
Not a man who drank in pubs
The remains of David, done.
Nothing much was left behind
Once the flocking carrion crows
Flew away with all that shone
leaving the condolence card
sent by his chiropodist,
by the photo of his bridge.
His study has been left untouched
By those who do not care at all
for civil engineering or
fading holiday souvenirs
"The Steel designer's manual"
"Out and about in Monmouthshire".
Sherington, May 2025
A bio, of sorts.
Nick Goodall has won innumerable prizes for his poetry, and his work is published widely.
Although almost entirely unknown to over eight billion people worldwide, his poems are known by only marginally fewer.
He considers paid-for competitions evil, draws a crowd, and is competitively priced.
His motto today is “Poems do not have to be profound, or long, and can be funny. Its okay”.
He recently ended a twenty-year relationship with Mark Zuckerberg and asks that you respect his privacy at this time.
Currently clean-shaven, he is apparently invisible, or at least, unrecognisable.