Notes to self
Poetry is an exercise in patience.
Poetry
“How do I like thee? Let me count the ways”
Inspired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Facebook. Gotta love the AI image generator’s attempt to produce a “cloud of thumbs up emojis”. It really can’t do hands… or faces.
“Highways agency”
Prompted by the variable messages overhead as I drove home down the M5.
“Think chair” poetry reading
A reading of “Think chair” and other poems more or less related to items of furniture
“Think chair” for “Get On Board 39”
When I responded to an invitation to ‘think chair’, Studio 36 published it.
“Think chair”
Veronica Gosling sent out an invitation to ‘think chair’, so I wrote a poem.
New ventures into poetry
strange how December / triggered reading and writing / poetry again
Green Words
Two haiku, one responding to the news of record September average global temperatures, and one celebrating a bit of biodiversity that is often overlooked.
National Poetry Day
Writing haiku, inspired by the natural world around (and perhaps inside) Exeter Cathedral.
“Dress for overcast”
In which I was a creative lead at a MozFest Fringe hack day, and also tinkered with Javascript to create some generative weather forecast poetry in motion.
Now we have Trump
Armageddon outta here…
Petroleum
BP has been found “grossly negligent” in the lead-up to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. I wrote a series of haikus in response to the original event, and other oil-related events past and imagined,
#turnedoutgreyagain, a Twoem
Blackbird perched precariously in pyracantha, picking at plentiful berries. #ventriloquismforbeginners
Presence
A poem inspired by Iona, and commended in Earthing Faith’s “Inspired by Creation” competition, October 2010.
My soul has taken flight
An experiment in a geo-located poem, August 2010.
Waiting for the Fionnphort Bus
Poem published in Poetry Scotland, Late Spring 2010.
