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May 31, 20131 min read
LS13 Anthology and Upcoming Gigs
A quick update also that – GOOD NEWS – I’m going to be one of the poets featured in the LS13 Leeds Writers anthology, about which more...
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May 31, 20131 min read
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...
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May 21, 20131 min read
The Bee-Spell of Shakespeare Primary School
Here is a collected list poem or “spell” from students’ work today – coming up with new collective nouns for (Latin-name) species of...
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May 12, 20132 min read
Going Viral: The Edge of Life
Coronavirus – which probably doesn’t infect textiles, like the virus in my poem I’ve been having a bit of a recovery period...
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Apr 30, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo 30: Here, Roots Are Not Joined
You fear, you fear her return. IT IS THE END OF NAPOWRIMO. And it really has been marvellous. I’ve just one poem (apart from that below)...
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Apr 30, 20131 min read
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...
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Apr 29, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo 29: Excerpts from a Report on the New Poem Aquarium
An empty aquarium – shall we fill it with poems? Shall we? So yes, it being the end of NaPoWriMo, I’m going quite deranged and using...
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Apr 29, 20132 min read
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...
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Apr 27, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo 27: Tami Is Using Pinterest
All that glitters is not what’s good for the goose. Feeling experimental today! I have been out running a workshop earlier, so just used...
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Apr 26, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo 26: Stories and/or Plans and/or Ideas
This became the nickname for my Mum, so my step-dad made her an actual Mothership logo – AWESOIME. Here’s my Day 26 offering, from Jo...
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Apr 25, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo 25: Picnic Ballad
Here is your hamper… …have a lovely time Sometimes, you’ve just got to let it all out. But, so a long-standing motto of mine goes: Make...
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Apr 24, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo 24: Dust Across the Beam
Hyde Park Picture House: 100 in 2014! As you may have noticed, things have been a bit cinematic on my blog during NaPoWriMo. I’m reading...
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Apr 23, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo 23: A Triolet for Entropy
The Universe loves things to get more disordered. (So most of us fit right in – We Are Stardust!) I’m running on a slightly altered...
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Apr 22, 20131 min read
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...
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Apr 21, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo 21: White Violin or, Lord Raby’s Massive Silver Wine Cooler
Lord Raby’s Massive Silver Wine Cooler – as so described on the signs in Temple Newsam House! Filling in an earlier gap from NaPoWriMo: I...
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Apr 21, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo 20: Rising Suns
Piss-en-lit! Taraxacum! Yesterday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to use a prescribed list of words and include 5 or more in a poem. Jo Bell’s...
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Apr 20, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo 19: Dating the Deep
COLOSSUS SEEKS KRAKEN Yesterday’s prompt was to write a poem in the form of a personal ad (from NaPoWriMo) or to write about a particular...
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Apr 18, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo 18: Me or Him, Even
Even? A really quick one today, from both Jo Bell’s prompt (write about something you feel guilty for) and the NaPoWriMo prompt, to start...
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Apr 17, 20132 min read
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...
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Apr 16, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo 16: Apple ’til Blackened Lager
Look! Blackened Lager is an actual thing! This was really good fun: the prompt today was to find a poem in a language other than English...
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