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My latest missives & musings
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…
Spring salad days
April 4. Today’s Napowrimo 2026 quest is to craft our own short poem that involves a weather phenomenon and some aspect of the season. We should try using rhyme and keeping our lines of roughly even length. In my spring salad daysBiannually, and without failSeasons signalled change,With revolutionary weather veils. Autumn’s breath would descend,Cloaked in…
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