New Year, New Wings
2019, when I had – in a very real sense – wings. A belated and brief round-up of last year (I know – it’s nearly February, but midwinter...
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- Apr 25, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 25: Picnic Ballad
Here is your hamper… …have a lovely time Sometimes, you’ve just got to let it all out. But, so a long-standing motto of mine goes: Make...
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- Apr 13, 2013
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 11: Double-Duvet Mecca
A pair of washers at a washeteria Day 11’s prompt was to write a Tanka (five-line stanzas with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables) – so I’ve used the...
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- Apr 12, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 10: Un-love Poem for Call-Centre Conversations
The battery-farming of conversation, in the form of a call centre. Day 10’s prompt was to write a poem of un-love; not a malediction, so...
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- Apr 12, 2013
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 9: “I’m the plot, babe, and don’t you forget it”
Smoky big-haired replicant femme-fatale from the future! Still catching up, so here’s my Noir poem for day 9. I actually found an IMDB...
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- Mar 3, 2013
- 3 min
Very Extremely Very
An artist’s impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope, to be built high up in the Andes – placed next to the London Eye, for...
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- Feb 4, 2013
- 2 min
The Angry Birds
Part of an excellent comic strip on cat killers from: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill – go on their website and buy their...
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- Jan 29, 2013
- 3 min
774 or, Darkling Child
“Two vortices their nuptials swore…” I’ve been continuing to read Paul Matthews’ excellent book on writing, Sing Me The Creation. One of...
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- Jan 21, 2013
- 2 min
‘As Above, So Below’ or, ‘Capital E. Control A. Control C. Control V.’
Galaxies or neurons? The Universe is, or is like, a Giant Brain. Or the Brain is, or is like, a Little Universe. Same diff. Last week, I...
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- Jan 20, 2013
- 1 min
Which Winter?
A snow-dome iris, cracking through the screen… This spell of wintry weather reminded me of a poem I wrote and put on some Christmas cards...
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- Jan 14, 2013
- 2 min
Crinkly Fingers or, A Lonely Fisherman Sings to the Catch
The Loneliness of a (Prune-Fingered) Trawler Fisherman This morning, I read a lovely news story by Jonathan Amos about research on...
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- Jan 11, 2013
- 1 min
Prey or, White Metal Cave
A 3M-long scrub python is preyed on by a plane. In my effort to write two new poems a week based on things I’ve seen in the news, here’s...
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- Aug 1, 2012
- 1 min
228mph or, The Falconer
Here’s a poem I wrote for a Teach First poetry slam we held yesterday – mine didn’t end up being performed (although the poem which did...
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- Sep 10, 2011
- 3 min
Beautiful Weeds, Cities and Systems
Botanical Time-Teller At the end of last month, I performed the Vermin Cycle at Green Man Festival – it was a great experience, although...
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- Jul 27, 2011
- 1 min
Verdle
I was just reminded of this lovely site, where you can enter a body of text and it creates a beautiful word cloud image… So I created my...
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- Jul 7, 2011
- 2 min
Balance Month
It's Balance Month. But I won't be doing any of this. (Have you seen 'Man On Wire'? It made my head hurt) On Saturday evening, H Ren and...
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- Jul 4, 2011
- 3 min
Everything Borrowed
A post-apocalyptic roach, Pixar-style I’ve just finished reading Margaret Atwood’s ‘Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth’. It’s a...
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- Jun 15, 2011
- 1 min
Parasites
A friend of mine has just started a new blog, which he’ll be updating with articles he’s both read and will be writing – mainly about...
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- Jun 8, 2011
- 1 min
Write Club, Spike Island, Monday 13th June
Next week, I’ll be ‘guest hosting’ a writer friend’s group at Spike Island – on Monday evening, 6-8pm. Hopefully I’ll do a passable...
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- Jun 7, 2011
- 1 min
‘Filing The Poet Laureate’
I’ve been working recently back in well-known broadcasting institution – and wrote this poem based on an occurrence a week or so ago....
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