“intelligent, odd, scary” This afternoon, I went to a ‘Workshop for Humans’ with Alex Bailey & Krõõt Juurak – after they came in yesterday afternoon to give a private performance for Barney (our border terrier). The performance – with a local agency news photographer present (you can see the video here) – was really interesting for Barney’s Humans (us) – and he definitely enjoyed aspects of it (as well as being a bit unnerved by others!). As someone who doesn’t ‘do’ movement

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 not-yet-very-good pantoum… (The thing I liked the most about this rather hasty process was learning the word ‘lumpenproletariat’…) The Turnspit The downtrodden, lumpenproletariat, turnspit: Small, low bodied, short crooked front legs Darwin said, Look at that. That’s an example Because they were useful as foot warmers. Small, low bodied, short crooke

A delightful ‘Dogship’ from this website – I don’t know what they do (because I can’t read it), but presumably it relates to dog care, and that’s a Good Thing. I’m largely eschewing prompts this year and thinking back to things I wanted to write, but didn’t get around to… Today, a rather brazen take on Masefield’s very rhythmic, rhymy, formal and ever-popular ‘Sea Fever’ – this is a poem based on a trip a few months ago. As it deals with a sea-related experience, I thought I’

Borders need Boundaries…? Off-prompt today as I’m doing day 5 and 6 today (was out and about yesterday) and this had started forming in my head already. Something light, silly and sound-oriented, which occurred to me after a chat on the train yesterday – and the general number of talks you end up having when with a dog. I hope you enjoy it… Talking Dogs And on the train she says, That labradoodle she got the blues if she didn’t have shoes while she snoozed. And on the towpath

This was the most tasteful dead dog I could find. Or maybe it’s asleep – let’s just say it’s asleep. Catching up 33% complete: here’s my first NaPoWriMo effort. High-speed poetry! The prompt was to write a poem using the first line of another poem. I used the Poetry Foundation app to find a random poem – which turned out to be ‘Time of Need’ by Allison Seay – which you can read here. The first line is ‘In the road, a dog. Days dead…’ (As a dog lover, this was a sad one to get