National Poetry Competition 2nd Prize!
or, Putting on Your Proper Poet Hat It’s with huge delight I can now celebrate that I was awarded second prize in The Poetry Society’s...
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- Jun 13, 2016
- 3 min
The Pact
One of the goaty references in my goaty piece… I put a piece of writing into the View from the Pen event at Windmill Hill City Farm –...
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- May 3, 2016
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 4.30 – Ate Night Moat
This is my day 30 (final one for the year) effort for National Poetry Writing Month. It’s a homophonic translation (according to sound,...
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- Apr 29, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 2.29: The Bristol Queen
The Bristol Queen… I’ve been travelling to Weston-super-Mare the last couple of weeks to run a course – and have noticed a boat on...
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- Apr 29, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 4.28: Ideas
A zoo sign from Bristol Zoo – and a wonderful artistic intervention. Something from today, for yesterday…I ran a group today and we...
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- Apr 27, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 2.27: Tele
Very long lines was today’s prompt from NaPoWriMo – I’m not sure mine are quite long enough, but I don’t have much time today – and have...
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- Apr 26, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 4.26: Views From the Pen
There was something I really wanted to write for a submission this week – so I duly have (and am treating it as my daily poem – though...
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- Apr 25, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 4.25: La Belle Dame…
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Frank Dicksee And so I’m up to date, with two ekphrastic poems… This second one inspired by the above...
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- Apr 25, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 4.24: The Wild Beast Show
The Wild Beast Show (1932) by Edward Seago Having just been up to the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, I’ve written a couple of...
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- Apr 23, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 4.23: My Hitman
A quick and very-first-draft one today (which may remain so) – written in response to a prompt in Helena Nelson’s book How (not) To Get...
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- Apr 22, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 4.22: The Thereminist Hails a Bus
Lydia Kavina played some wonderful contemporary classical for theremin, as well as some marvellous sci-fi and mystery classics, like Mars...
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- Apr 21, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 4.21: Entrance Only
We were at a funeral yesterday and I wrote something about waiting to go to such a ceremony at a crematorium – and also touching on them...
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- Apr 21, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 4.20: An Omission in the City
It appears I’m writing more that I might submit elsewhere this year – which makes for a less interesting blog, but a more hopeful...
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- Apr 18, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 4.17: Midnight
Catching up with some blackout poems – which are really great fun to do…(Sorry that on the scan you can see the original text if you look...
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- Apr 18, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 4.16: Nut Milk
If you’d like an actual, not silly, article about this subject, go here. Inspired by a rum-punch hangover conversation: SCRIPT FOR A VERY...
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- Apr 15, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 4.15: The Turnspit
It’s very late and I have to work tomorrow, so this is a piece of Uncreative Writing, by turning this article content into a...
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- Apr 13, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 4.13: The Desktop Metaphor
So then: I’m making the decision to only title this here and post it to private groups on Facebook. Because it might be one that gets...
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- Apr 11, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 4.11: Looking Through the Patio Doors at Dusk, April 2016
“In a terracotta pot, day-/glo plastic pegs cling to the edge…” I liked the NaPoWriMo prompt today – the idea of the last, abstracted...
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- Apr 11, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 4.9: Drag Queen Bingo
Well then: I’ve written something based on Drag Queen Bingo on Saturday night. But I’ve decided it’s probably too offensive to put on...
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- Apr 8, 2016
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 4.8: Operation
The skill game where you’re the doctor! A tritina, from yesterday’s prompt, and without an introduction… **NB Taken this one down as I...
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