lizard fish bird mammal shrimp brain innit Here’s something for the last day which – (YES I CHEATED but I had nothin’ left for April, ya...

Twisty Tim Burton Trees… Yes, I know I’m nearly a week late – but I really haven’t had the chance up to know to be a Completist and put...

The Sloth: A Big Deal (for real) Here’s my news story-based poem (using pretty much just words from the article itself). The story was...

“The shelves around his office are full of shiny awards, shrivelled words. “ Number twenty-seven and off-prompt. Something inspired by a...

Like a satellite, all I can see of him is a distant silver spin – Here’s an attempt / variation on a curtal sonnet, based on an overheard...

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...

“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...

Caught up! Here’s my take on the shell name, ‘The Sparse Dove’…This one was rather fun to write. Sparse I realise there’s a lot riding on...

Ride the Lights An article about Ride the Lights, which me & @drpaulhurley did for @HepworthGallery last month… #TheHepworthWakefield...

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...

But is she among them…? It’s a catch up day again – I’m finding that poetry gathering- and writing-binges are how I’m doing NaPoWriMo...

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,...

Hangover evidence… Day 11: the challenge to write something Anacreon would approve of. Well, I’m not sure how much he wrote about...

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...