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My latest missives & musings
Skipping sleep
April 7. Today’s Napowrimo 2026 challenge is to write our own poem that emulates school playground skipping songs – something to snap, clap, and jump around to. I guess these are meant to be light but for a number of reasons I chose not to follow that path and with the second one invert the…
Galaxy of glimpses
April 6. Today’s daily resource for Napowrimo 2026 is Nobel-winning poet Louise Glück’s essay, “Against Sincerity,” in which Glück muses on the difference between honesty and truth in poetry. She pays particular attention to the blue and red corners of Milton and Keats, a virtual debate that inspired the following. On a cold wet marble,…
Kaleidoscopic hate
April 5. Today’s Napowrimo 2026 task is to write a poem of our own form choice that explores disliking something – particularly something utterly innocuous, like clover. We should try to be OTT and silly and overdramatic. The inspiration for this prompt focussed on hate, so I felt obliged to colour in that emotion. Do…
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