Last year I recorded four poems for Poetcasting, the poetry podcasting site put together by the enterprising Alex Pryce. Poetcasting is a brilliantly simple idea – ask contemporary poets to record a handful of poems and distribute them on a blog as MP3 downloads. I recorded four poems – ‘Hiroshima’, ‘The Devon Vihara’, ‘Love Hotel’ […]
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Poem – ‘The To-Do List Before Christmas’
I’ve just posted a Christmas poem over at Lateral Action: ‘The To-do List Before Christmas‘. You probably need to be a computer geek/productivity nerd to get all the references, but hopefully you’ll find something to enjoy in it even if you’re not as sad as Lou. Merry Christmas!
Poem – Rain Haiku
Rain falls with twilight — the city’s fingers drumming on our umbrella First published at Copyblogger.
W.H. Auden — ‘The Fall of Rome’
The causes of Auden’s move to the States have been debated ad nauseam, but here’s a minor side effect I’ve not seen anyone comment on: Caesar’s double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK On a pink official form. ‘The Fall of Rome’ Surely that’s an American accent in […]
Welcome (Back) to My Poetry Site
Well, it’s been a long break. Even longer than the break at Wishful Thinking. Partly it was down to simply being busy with other things — running my business, launching Lateral Action. And partly because I wasn’t happy having the poetry blog as an appendage to the Wishful Thinking site — as you can see, […]