Eyedrum Periodically: Backwards
Two of my poems – as well as an array of splendid work – are in this edition of Eyedrum Periodically, on the theme of ‘Backwards’. Of my...
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Oct 13, 20141 min
Bristol Death Cafe
Here’s a short piece I wrote about my experience at the first Bristol Death Cafe. The next event is at Cox and Baloney on Sunday 29th...
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Oct 6, 20141 min
Joy’s Kitchen
A poem of mine, in honour of my late Granny Joy’s compulsion to collect, has been published by The Moon Magazine, here. #collections...
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Sep 24, 20141 min
My Phone Instead of an Onion: Video Poetry
New Life (created during a videopoetry workshop at Liberated Words 2014) from Marc Neys (aka Swoon) on Vimeo. On Saturday, I joined a...
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Aug 5, 20142 min
CaCaPoMo: “My Boat Won’t Bend”
Rant away, sir! Here’s something inspired by the end of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and an encounter with another boater. An admission:...
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Aug 2, 20141 min
CaCaPoMo: Branches
The Tree of Life Some more poetry from our summer of canal travel (CaCaPoMo = Caleb’s Canal Poetry Month) – I’m sat inside, sheltering...
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Jul 29, 20141 min
CaCaPoMo: The Standedge Admiral
Marsden Moor, above the Standedge Tunnel – the kind of view Thomas Bourne saw day after day after day… (image from...
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Jul 25, 20142 min
CaCaPoMo: The Blarney Played a Vital Rood
Thank goodness for those extra CRT lights… Having arrived at Standedge Tunnel on Tuesday night, we were thwarted in getting through on...
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Jul 25, 20141 min
CaCaPoMo: By-Law
People defying By-Law 41 (image via the Examiner). On Tuesday, we travelled up through locks 9 to lock 42 (yes, a lot of locks) on the...
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Jul 25, 20141 min
CaCaPoMo: Leaving Through Lock 4E
Huddersfield Narrow Canal Lock 4E (image from geograph.org.uk) A bit of catch-up from the journey and its poems so far. Here’s a poem...
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Jul 24, 20141 min
Caleb’s Canal Poetry Month (CaCaPoMo)
Our route from North to West For the next month, we are on the move aboard Reenie again headed back towards Bristol…Where I am starting a...
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May 6, 20141 min
NaPoWriMo 2.30: try
lizard fish bird mammal shrimp brain innit Here’s something for the last day which – (YES I CHEATED but I had nothin’ left for April, ya...
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May 6, 20141 min
NaPoWriMo 2.29: Conviction
Twisty Tim Burton Trees… Yes, I know I’m nearly a week late – but I really haven’t had the chance up to know to be a Completist and put...
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Apr 28, 20141 min
2.28: Big Deal
The Sloth: A Big Deal (for real) Here’s my news story-based poem (using pretty much just words from the article itself). The story was...
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Apr 28, 20141 min
NaPoWriMo 2.27: Opportunity
“The shelves around his office are full of shiny awards, shrivelled words. “ Number twenty-seven and off-prompt. Something inspired by a...
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Apr 28, 20141 min
NaPoWriMo 2.26: Zones 1 to 5
Like a satellite, all I can see of him is a distant silver spin – Here’s an attempt / variation on a curtal sonnet, based on an overheard...
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Apr 27, 20141 min
NaPoWriMo 2.25: Leisure
Your orders… Friday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write something using anaphora, a way of repeating the same phrase in a poem to explore and...
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Apr 24, 20141 min
NaPoWriMo 2.24: Skag-Afforder
“Egg raining aloe vera” I loved doing the homophonic translation last year – which produced this vulgar thing from a Danish poem. As I...
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Apr 23, 20141 min
NaPoWriMo 2.23: Mary, Mary
I’ve been at a poetry course tonight (with the marvellous Rommi Smith) and we’ve been talking about syllables. So we wrote a cinquain, a...
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Apr 23, 20141 min
NaPoWriMo 2.22: Barb
“Her name is Barb. She’s never shut. The one-sided sign on the door reads: OPEN.” So a ‘children’s poem’ very much in the vein of Roald...
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