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Poetry

Thursday, January 19, 2012

emboldens the life that is already there like a glass of red wine but also sometimes like the hangover the morning after.

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absentia, re-mixed

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Visuals by Mika Tennekoon.

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Poetry exercises: 1

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Iambic pentameter I had no wish to write my lines like this, but some old bastard made me do it. So…

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Falling in love on trains

Sunday, August 21, 2011

She looked up and I looked up and we locked eyes – for maybe two full seconds – and then she went back to her book and didn’t look up again. And I thought: Fine. I thought: Be that way.

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After Eliot (fragment)

Monday, August 15, 2011

… there is a time for building And a time for living and for generation And a time for East Coker to get a branch of LIDL.

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After Auden (fragment)

Thursday, March 31, 2011

I am better off with madness and with fear; I do not care for food; neither do I wish to sleep alone; but happiness – that is another business altogether.

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Poem about everything

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Things are as they are. Must one write a damn poem about everything?

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A matter of emphasis

Sunday, December 5, 2010

The poetry does not matter – Eliot. The poetry does not matter – Elliott.

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from ‘Verses in Honour of the great Scots poet Sir William Topaz McGonagall, on the occasion of the Feast of St Andrew, this day the 30th November, the Year of Our Lord 2010’

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Three cheers fer William McGonagall! Ye should read his peerless poetry… all y’all.

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“What’s so wrong with having a sense of humour?”

Sunday, February 28, 2010

ASH Smyth meets his poetic heroin(e) and suffers a Dictaphone malfunction   When you step outside, perhaps you’ll see an envoy from the Nobel Literature Committee; though it’s unlikely. This was my attempt at ‘finishing’ Wendy Cope’s contribution to the GLF’s Opening Lines Project. I figured it did the job, a fragment of Cope-style (Copious?) […]

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