Apr 27, 20141 minNaPoWriMo 2.25: LeisureYour 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 24, 20141 minNaPoWriMo 2.24: Skag-Afforder“Egg raining aloe vera” I loved doing the homophonic translation last year – which produced this vulgar thing from a Danish poem. As I...
Apr 23, 20141 minNaPoWriMo 2.23: Mary, MaryI’ve been at a poetry course tonight (with the marvellous Rommi Smith) and we’ve been talking about syllables. So we wrote a cinquain, a...
Apr 23, 20141 minNaPoWriMo 2.22: Barb“Her name is Barb. She’s never shut. The one-sided sign on the door reads: OPEN.” So a ‘children’s poem’ very much in the vein of Roald...
Apr 23, 20141 minNaPoWriMo 2.21: Low Angle – a ‘New York’ poem…?Maybe that’s how New York would want it: rude and random. I’m not sure – but here it is, anyway: Low Angle Monday 21st April, 17.59. ‘The...