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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...
Apr 16, 20131 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 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’...
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 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...
Apr 15, 20132 min read
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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...
Apr 13, 20131 min read
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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...
Apr 12, 20132 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 7: The Pies of Awareness
The Pies of Awareness may or may not come from Gregg’s (who feature, by the way, as a Classical Allusion in another poem of mine by a...
Apr 9, 20132 min read
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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...
Apr 9, 20132 min read
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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...
Apr 7, 20132 min read
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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...
Apr 4, 20131 min read
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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...
Apr 3, 20131 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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Card-board Word-hoard: Sunday 17th March
Sunday, 2pm at Melbourne Street Studios, Leeds. YOU SHOULD COME. IT WILL BE FUN AND MESSY. Bring: glue sticks, scissors, old newspapers...
Mar 11, 20132 min read
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A Haiku
‘Arriving at The British Gas Museum, Leicester, with hopes of a huge display of pilot lights, pipes and valves’ A sign on the door: ...
Mar 4, 20131 min read
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The Angry Birds
Part of an excellent comic strip on cat killers from: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill – go on their website and buy their...
Feb 4, 20132 min read
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774 or, Darkling Child
“Two vortices their nuptials swore…” I’ve been continuing to read Paul Matthews’ excellent book on writing, Sing Me The Creation. One of...
Jan 29, 20133 min read
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