SEND IT BACK Catch up Friday (and because writing is more fun that other things I should probably be doing). A quickly-written but...

Yup, this is me after my haircut. (NB – OBVIOUSLY IT’S NOT, from my ‘hair model’ Google, it’s apparently the alarmingly-pristine and...

“hook yourself up to this black machine…” Catching up and got rather caught up on this one… There’s an element of the Concrete about it,...

“Let us get ourselves a pet…” My, it’s getting late. Which might be why day three turned out quite so peculiarly (sorry not sorry)....

“It said it was from IKEA…” (And this picture is from there). Day two for NaPoWriMo, and something I started yesterday. I looked through...

“A bright seed…” It’s April – and that means National Poetry Writing Month…And I’ve decided to really commit again this year. I’ll be...

Folly Footbridge – as mentioned in my ‘aubade’ (morning poem). Image googled, from www.kennet-avon-canal.co.uk NaPoWriMo catch-up…and...

A Plank In Reason? Playing catch-up today (when I should be doing other things, of course), with my Emily Dickinson-inspired poem. Here...

One of the scenes I remember from the day in 1997 when Diana’s death was reported. Didn’t fancy the love/un-love prompt today, so had a...

My Fellow Ministers? Day three’s poem, which I didn’t get around to yesterday…I’ve had a go at a sort of mixed-metaphor vaguely-political...

Stones at Barry Island Beach At a beach today, on the birthday of a friend no longer with us – so the stars/constellations prompt was...

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...

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...