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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...
May 31, 20131 min read
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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)...
Apr 30, 20132 min read
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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...
Apr 29, 20131 min read
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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...
Apr 26, 20131 min read
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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...
Apr 21, 20132 min read
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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...
Apr 18, 20132 min read
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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...
Apr 17, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 15: Transaction on a Spring Day – A Pantum
The OWL (Observation Wheel Leeds) at night – which is the ‘great revolving wheel’ in the poem… Today’s prompt: a Malay verse-form “of...
Apr 15, 20131 min read
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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...
Apr 15, 20131 min read
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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...
Apr 12, 20131 min read
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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...
Apr 3, 20132 min read
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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...
Apr 3, 20131 min read
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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...
Mar 25, 20132 min read
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Advice for the Artist When Depicting a Lady-Scientist or, Unbecoming
Ada King, Countess of Lovelace – AKA Proto-Computer Queen So Friday was International Women’s Day – and Sunday Mother’s Day. Hurrah for...
Mar 12, 20133 min read
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The Vermin Cycle: Adventures in Self-Publishing
The Vermin Cycle eBook Cover It’s a new year, a new Mayan era (allegedly) and very much a new start. So, being as we made it through...
Jan 10, 20131 min read
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