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Apr 16, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo 16: Emancipation on Briggate
Fortunately, the wheelie bin I saw on the move this morning off Briggate was not air-borne (just ground-borne – can something be...
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Apr 15, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo 14: I AM ANTI-BOTNET
An infographic of how a Botnet works…I’d like to see an infographic of my ANTI-BOTNET. Anyone? Tasked with creating a ‘persona poem’...
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Apr 15, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo 12: Want/Need
A magick key (for an inadvertently key-shaped poem) A quick one this: I don’t often get slushy and when I do, it tends to be short! And...
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Apr 15, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo 13: Windowless Walls
Bagel Nash, which was once the News Theatre, by Leeds Station I continue to run at a poetical-deficit, but will catch up soon (12 and 14...
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Apr 13, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo 11: Double-Duvet Mecca
A pair of washers at a washeteria Day 11’s prompt was to write a Tanka (five-line stanzas with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables) – so I’ve used the...
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Apr 12, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo 10: Un-love Poem for Call-Centre Conversations
The battery-farming of conversation, in the form of a call centre. Day 10’s prompt was to write a poem of un-love; not a malediction, so...
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Apr 12, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo 9: “I’m the plot, babe, and don’t you forget it”
Smoky big-haired replicant femme-fatale from the future! Still catching up, so here’s my Noir poem for day 9. I actually found an IMDB...
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Apr 11, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo 8: An Ottova Rima
There’ll be plenty of this going on above the Atlantic in years to come, it seems… Yes, I’m still running on something of a...
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Apr 9, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo 6: A Valediction for Cleanliness
Not a picture of me – this was relatively clean for the Wolf Run… Taken a moment out from the meditation and practice retreat I’m on...
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Apr 7, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo – wonderful John Donne valedictions
On my way to do a 10k run with obstacles this morning – and being energised by metaphysical poetry! Though no doubt the Power of Poetry...
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Apr 6, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo 5: Unprompted Art Poetry
Paul Jenkins’ ‘Phenomena Secret Cargo’ – but not as we saw it in the gallery…Which is right? Day 6 of NaPoWriMo – I’m still brewing a...
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Apr 4, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo 4: Breath or, Inspiration / Exhalation
An Iain M. Banks Style Spaceship A curious task today: make something using the names of spaceships from Iain M. Banks sci-fi books. It...
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Apr 4, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo 3: A Sea Shanty for Failed Urban Development
Prompt no. 3 of NaPoWriMo was to write a sea shanty. This pleased me greatly as I’m a part of (when I can make it!) the Ocean Loiners – a...
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Apr 3, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo 2: Lies, All Lies
Eliot – who never had twin daughters…Or did he? (No, he didn’t). Onward with NaPoWriMo catch-up – now at 66.66% catch-up. We’re entering...
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Apr 3, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo 1: Borrowed First Line
This was the most tasteful dead dog I could find. Or maybe it’s asleep – let’s just say it’s asleep. Catching up 33% complete: here’s my...
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Apr 3, 20131 min read
NaPoWriMo High-Speed Catch-Up
So it’s NaPoWriMo: National Poetry Writing Month 2013! And I’ve missed the beginning by a couple of days. Drat. So I’ll be putting other...
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Mar 28, 20131 min read
Pesticide makes bees forget the scent for food, new study finds
http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/27/pesticide-bees-scent-food-neocotinoid Just after my piece about how bees see and smell –...
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Mar 27, 20131 min read
The Proper Science Behind “The Angry Birds”
How lovely: a fellow science and poetry blogger (but one who writes about the science behind poetry, rather than poetry based on science)...
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Mar 27, 20131 min read
Falcons ‘rapidly evolved hunter skill’
Falcons ‘rapidly evolved hunter skill’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21885659 I love raptors – wrote a poem last year about meeting a...
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Mar 25, 20132 min read
Little Shadows
How a bee might see a flower – except, not really, because they *smell shapes* (kind of). I’m brewing a project – a series of workshops...
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