I’m typing this a mere fistful of hours before the insanity of the 24 Hour Poem competition gets underway, while contemplating the awesome agglomeration of words that I’ve gleaned from the five books up for grabs. At this point it may be worth mentioning that I got very little sleep last night, as I kept …
Preparing for National Poetry Day – two events!
Some very blatant pimping: I’m putting together two things for this year’s National Poetry Day, which takes place on Friday August 24th. The first, as those of you who visit regularly may have feared, is my own version of the CV2 Two-Day Poem Contest: The 2018 National Poetry Day 24-Hour Poem Competition Yep, that’s right. …
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Where the heck did June come from?!
I seem to have misplaced the first half of this year. I’m sure it was only a few weeks ago that I was girding various unmentionable parts of myself to deal with the Great Onslaught of Assorted Tradesman, and trying to put together classes to help with meeting their various (and generally quite reasonable) requests …
This is not an entirely happy post
I was going to title this one “After this I am instituting a policy of shooting on sight, definitely site” but then I thought that it might be the sort of online posting that results in government agencies taking an unhelpful level of interest in my activities. The process of renovation that began last July …
A(nother) Difficult Day
Just back from handing over the manuscript of time to sing beofre the dark to Bruce Bascand and his sister Robyn. I’ve written and erased dozens of paragraphs that follow on from that simple statement. Stupid. Let’s just go with the observation that I didn’t handle it as well as I would have liked, and I’m …
A Dark Feathered Art 