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My latest missives & musings
Recipe poetica
April 26, Napowrimo 2026. I awake on the last Sunday of the month to be asked to write my Ars Poetica – an explanation of why I write or what I think poetry is about. I have the same reaction to this as when I’m asked to name my favourite band, song, cake, wine, beer,…
Relief
April 25, Napowrimo 2026. Our prompt today – to write a poem in which we use at least three metaphors for a single thing, include an exclamation, ruminate on the definition of a word, and come back in the closing line to the image or idea with which you opened the poem. Mother, please tell…
Bilious semaphore
April 24, Napowrimo 2026. Today we were given the resource of a curated selection of letters written by the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet who I admire greatly. His idiosyncratic refusal to stick to preferred poetic structures has without doubt inspired me and follows perfectly behind yesterday’s work on form with the Villanelle.…
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