2019 Poetry Marathon: My half-marathon recap

Originally posted here.

Another year’s half marathon come and gone. As I often point out, I prefer to do the half marathon because I like to sleep; consequently doing the full 24-hour marathon simply wouldn’t work for me, as it would take me at least a couple of days to get back to normal. Continue reading

2019 Poetry Marathon, Hour Twelve: We forged on…

My Hour 12 poem—and that’s a wrap. The prompt was to do an erasure poem, so I went to the photograph I’d taken a few weeks back of p. 143 from Cosey Fanni Tutti’s art sex music (Faber & Faber, 2017):

p. 143 from art sex music by Cosey Fanni Tutti, showing the parts blacked out to create this erasure poem

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