Marvin could do with a bit of this recipe, I reckon. Last Thursday 27th July, I compered an event as part of at-Bristol’s Festival of...

This is my day 30 (final one for the year) effort for National Poetry Writing Month. It’s a homophonic translation (according to sound,...

The Bristol Queen… I’ve been travelling to Weston-super-Mare the last couple of weeks to run a course – and have noticed a boat on...

Very long lines was today’s prompt from NaPoWriMo – I’m not sure mine are quite long enough, but I don’t have much time today – and have...

La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Frank Dicksee And so I’m up to date, with two ekphrastic poems… This second one inspired by the above...

Lydia Kavina played some wonderful contemporary classical for theremin, as well as some marvellous sci-fi and mystery classics, like Mars...

We were at a funeral yesterday and I wrote something about waiting to go to such a ceremony at a crematorium – and also touching on them...

Catching up with some blackout poems – which are really great fun to do…(Sorry that on the scan you can see the original text if you look...

So then: I’m making the decision to only title this here and post it to private groups on Facebook. Because it might be one that gets...

“In a terracotta pot, day-/glo plastic pegs cling to the edge…” I liked the NaPoWriMo prompt today – the idea of the last, abstracted...

The skill game where you’re the doctor! A tritina, from yesterday’s prompt, and without an introduction… **NB Taken this one down as I...

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...

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...

“Egg raining aloe vera” I loved doing the homophonic translation last year – which produced this vulgar thing from a Danish poem. As I...

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...

The view from Castle Hill above Huddersfield Here’s my rubaiyat (though I think I lost the rhyme scheme in the last two stanzas – gah!),...

a tall empty form... Something that started as a sort of ‘mock poem’ but I thought I’d turn it into a slightly less mock-poem…Based on a...

“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...

The dream home of Tomorrow, in which you might find the Goblin… It’s a two-poem day as my brain was too fried yesterday…The other...