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...

“Egg raining aloe vera” I loved doing the homophonic translation last year – which produced this vulgar thing from a Danish poem. As I...

I’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...

“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...

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...

The view from Castle Hill above Huddersfield Here’s my rubaiyat (though I think I lost the rhyme scheme in the last two stanzas – gah!),...

a tall empty form... Something that started as a sort of ‘mock poem’ but I thought I’d turn it into a slightly less mock-poem…Based on a...

Our bus across the Yorkshire countryside was not like the Wensleydale Omnibus, alas. http://www.wensleydaleomnibus.co.uk/‎ Final poem of...

“She’s the actual one, you know, who hooted through the hall of Hogwarts. In the film. Really.” Up to Wednesday! The prompt/challenge was...

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...

Upmarket Sunday. Nom nom nom. Today’s challenge: to write something with the Old Norse tradition of kennings. These are a kind...

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,...

Someone else’s crackling sausage. It’s a catch-up day…I’m aiming to get 10, 11, 12 and maybe 13 on here this afternoon – eek! Here’s...

The Shukhov Tower in Moscow Shukhov Bones skinny and constant heaven lies like a Hello? Hello? If only. Don’t stop. No. A little poem...

“The vase is filled with another thousand of these moments.” Today, I’ve co-written (with my partner Paul Hurley) the second poem of the...

The dream home of Tomorrow, in which you might find the Goblin… It’s a two-poem day as my brain was too fried yesterday…The other...

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...

Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to write a lune – a kind of English language haiku which goes, line by line: three words / five words / three...

Ding! Ding! Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write a charm against something. And today’s 52 prompt was to write about losing something....

Now 49p. Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to write something based on mythology that isn’t Greek or Roman. On my web-travels, I discovered...