A blood(shot) moon. Further poetry catch-up. Here’s my terza rima from Tuesday…From which I learned that terza rima is HARD to make sense...

But is she among them…? It’s a catch up day again – I’m finding that poetry gathering- and writing-binges are how I’m doing NaPoWriMo...

Upmarket Sunday. Nom nom nom. Today’s challenge: to write something with the Old Norse tradition of kennings. These are a kind...

Or become hysterical – but do go to Japan, it’s great. Yesterday’s word adventure was to think up a concrete noun – a word for a solid,...

Someone else’s crackling sausage. It’s a catch-up day…I’m aiming to get 10, 11, 12 and maybe 13 on here this afternoon – eek! Here’s...

The Shukhov Tower in Moscow Shukhov Bones skinny and constant heaven lies like a Hello? Hello? If only. Don’t stop. No. A little poem...

“The vase is filled with another thousand of these moments.” Today, I’ve co-written (with my partner Paul Hurley) the second poem of the...

The dream home of Tomorrow, in which you might find the Goblin… It’s a two-poem day as my brain was too fried yesterday…The other...

Enceladus. Not enchiladas. Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to use what’s outside your window to make a list or toolbox of nouns, colours and...

Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to write a lune – a kind of English language haiku which goes, line by line: three words / five words / three...

Ding! Ding! Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write a charm against something. And today’s 52 prompt was to write about losing something....

Now 49p. Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to write something based on mythology that isn’t Greek or Roman. On my web-travels, I discovered...

“Ten trillion flies can’t be wrong…” **WARNING** Parental Guidance – (Mildly) Explicit Lyrics So it begins. And I do enjoy the challenge...

Making my merry way back to Leeds after a lovely time in Bristol (which I do miss). Obviously I am on the glamorous Megabus – and am sat...

Ivor Cutler, January 15, 1923 – March 3, 2006. For a while now I’ve wanted to write and perform something as – channelling, or in tribute...

I went along to ELFM Towers yesterday for a chat with the ever-gracious Peter Spafford on his monthly extravaganza of all things wordy,...

One of the recent, unusual, French funnels. Recently, there have been tornadoes in both the USA and in France (!), where they are much...

26th June at the Heart Centre, Headingley – come along! #writing #poets #creativewriting #poetry #HEadingley #Leeds

An uphill snail… A brief post, as – after NaPoWriMo – I’ve had a bit of breathing space…But feel like the fallow time is done and the...

Here is a collected list poem or “spell” from students’ work today – coming up with new collective nouns for (Latin-name) species of...