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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...
Apr 11, 20161 min read
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NaPoWriMo 4.6: Model
Yup, this is me after my haircut. (NB – OBVIOUSLY IT’S NOT, from my ‘hair model’ Google, it’s apparently the alarmingly-pristine and...
Apr 7, 20162 min read
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NaPoWriMo 2.25: Leisure
Your orders… Friday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write something using anaphora, a way of repeating the same phrase in a poem to explore and...
Apr 27, 20141 min read
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NaPoWriMo 2.17: 310
Our bus across the Yorkshire countryside was not like the Wensleydale Omnibus, alas. http://www.wensleydaleomnibus.co.uk/‎ Final poem of...
Apr 17, 20141 min read
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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...
Apr 17, 20141 min read
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Waterstone’s and Rats
On Tuesday, I’ll be reading alongside other LS13 Anthology writers at Waterstone’s in Leeds city centre, from 7pm. It would be lovely to...
Oct 6, 20131 min read
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Love The Words on ELFM
I went along to ELFM Towers yesterday for a chat with the ever-gracious Peter Spafford on his monthly extravaganza of all things wordy,...
Jul 17, 20131 min read
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Pirates
Last Saturday, I went on a workshop with the Canal Laureate, Jo Bell, about whom you can read more here. We spent some time talking about...
Jul 11, 20132 min read
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Snails, or Cycling in Shropshire
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...
May 31, 20131 min read
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Buzz Words and the Bee Ceilidh at Green Man Festival
Buzz Words and the Bee Ceilidh at Green Man Festival Here’s my listing site for Einstein’s Garden at Green Man – take a look! I’m very...
Apr 30, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 28: Painting Friends’ Palettes
A lovely iridescent bubble Yesterday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write about a colour. So – as it’s nearing the end of the month and I (as...
Apr 29, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 22: Generic Blessings
Temple Newsam House, with its blessing around the roof-line Catching up with some NaPoWriMo prompts: determined to have at least 30 by...
Apr 22, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 17: Google Search Suggestions on the Day of Thatcher’s Funeral
Indeed she is not. At least we all have death in common though, eh? Off-prompt today, but will be writing a Blessing (after Jo Bell’s...
Apr 17, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 7: The Pies of Awareness
The Pies of Awareness may or may not come from Gregg’s (who feature, by the way, as a Classical Allusion in another poem of mine by a...
Apr 9, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 5: Unprompted Art Poetry
Paul Jenkins’ ‘Phenomena Secret Cargo’ – but not as we saw it in the gallery…Which is right? Day 6 of NaPoWriMo – I’m still brewing a...
Apr 6, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 3: A Sea Shanty for Failed Urban Development
Prompt no. 3 of NaPoWriMo was to write a sea shanty. This pleased me greatly as I’m a part of (when I can make it!) the Ocean Loiners – a...
Apr 4, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 2: Lies, All Lies
Eliot – who never had twin daughters…Or did he? (No, he didn’t). Onward with NaPoWriMo catch-up – now at 66.66% catch-up. We’re entering...
Apr 3, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 1: Borrowed First Line
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...
Apr 3, 20131 min read
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Falcons ‘rapidly evolved hunter skill’
Falcons ‘rapidly evolved hunter skill’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21885659 I love raptors – wrote a poem last year about meeting a...
Mar 27, 20131 min read
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Little Shadows
How a bee might see a flower – except, not really, because they *smell shapes* (kind of). I’m brewing a project – a series  of workshops...
Mar 25, 20132 min read
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