Extrasensory Perceptions: Fortean Poetry
Though let’s be honest, it’s seriously slippery. Some upcoming and ongoing projects: I’m delighted to be running a weekend of Fortean...
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- Nov 7, 2018
- 2 min
Poembergs
The Tower of Maps and Thread (there’s a title) A few hurrahs: firstly, my poem ‘How to Preserve a Fatberg’ is up today on The Poetry Shed...
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- Aug 7, 2017
- 1 min
Osteochondritis Dissecans
“desecrated spaces, the rivers of me, these capillaries drying up at their tips” Last Wednesday, I ran the last workshop (of four) at M...
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- Aug 4, 2017
- 2 min
A Recipe for Martian Happiness
Marvin could do with a bit of this recipe, I reckon. Last Thursday 27th July, I compered an event as part of at-Bristol’s Festival of...
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- Mar 18, 2017
- 1 min
Bony Orbit – Videopoem
A videopoem I made, based on some 1940s footage of How The Eye Functions, is now up on Atticus Review here, and embedded directly from...
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- Feb 19, 2016
- 1 min
Hands
A poem of mine, ‘Hands’, has just gone up on Folia Magazine online – you can read it here. The poem came out of a workshop a couple of...
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- Apr 8, 2015
- 1 min
Poetry School Microcommission: First Report
Shaun’s response to a government report on Innovation… There’s a quick update on The Poetry School Microcommission project, ‘Chainmail’,...
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- Feb 5, 2015
- 1 min
The Poetry School Microcommission: Chainmail
We got one of the Lo! and Behold Microcommissions from The Poetry School! Mine was one of five projects fortunate enough to receive a...
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- Aug 2, 2014
- 1 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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- Apr 28, 2014
- 1 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 17, 2014
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 15: Bloodshot Moons
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...
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- Apr 13, 2014
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 2.12: Hilarity Crash-Lands in Japan
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,...
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- Apr 6, 2014
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 2.6: Enceladus Street
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...
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- Jun 11, 2013
- 2 min
The Rules of Twister or, Meaning of Whirl
One of the recent, unusual, French funnels. Recently, there have been tornadoes in both the USA and in France (!), where they are much...
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- May 12, 2013
- 2 min
Going Viral: The Edge of Life
Coronavirus – which probably doesn’t infect textiles, like the virus in my poem I’ve been having a bit of a recovery period...
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- Apr 29, 2013
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 29: Excerpts from a Report on the New Poem Aquarium
An empty aquarium – shall we fill it with poems? Shall we? So yes, it being the end of NaPoWriMo, I’m going quite deranged and using...
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- Apr 23, 2013
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 23: A Triolet for Entropy
The Universe loves things to get more disordered. (So most of us fit right in – We Are Stardust!) I’m running on a slightly altered...
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- Apr 21, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 20: Rising Suns
Piss-en-lit! Taraxacum! Yesterday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to use a prescribed list of words and include 5 or more in a poem. Jo Bell’s...
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- Apr 20, 2013
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 19: Dating the Deep
COLOSSUS SEEKS KRAKEN Yesterday’s prompt was to write a poem in the form of a personal ad (from NaPoWriMo) or to write about a particular...
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- Apr 15, 2013
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 14: I AM ANTI-BOTNET
An infographic of how a Botnet works…I’d like to see an infographic of my ANTI-BOTNET. Anyone? Tasked with creating a ‘persona poem’...
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