My Hour 4 poem, based on a photograph by Jake Allison. This one took a little longer… Continue reading
half-marathon (for now)
2019 Poetry Marathon, Hour Three: Morning menu
My Hour 3 poem… Continue reading
2019 Poetry Marathon, Hour Two: Mahou
My Hour 2 poem. Mahou (魔法) is the Japanese word for magic… Continue reading
2019 Poetry Marathon, Hour One: I am
The insanity has begun! My Hour 1 poem… Continue reading
2017 Poetry Marathon, Hour Twelve: Sleep of the Golden Hour
Success! This is my twelfth poem of the day, meaning I have finished the half-marathon. I think a nap is in order… Continue reading
2017 Poetry Marathon, Hour Eleven: Empty
Eleventh poem of the day. Continue reading
2017 Poetry Marathon, Hour Ten: Red
Tenth poem of the day. Continue reading
2017 Poetry Marathon, Hour Nine: Apologies to the spider I flushed down the toilet in a wadded-up tissue
Ninth poem of the day. Continue reading
2017 Poetry Marathon, Hour Eight: A treatise on shame (facsimile)
The prompt was to take a line from a poem and use it to write a golden shove. The line I used as my inspiration comes from Milan Kundera’s novel Immortality:
‘Shame means that we resist what we desire, and feel ashamed that we desire what we resist.’ (p. 330 of the 1991 Faber and Faber paperback edition)
Eighth poem of the day. Continue reading
2017 Poetry Marathon, Hour Seven: War (and hide)
Seventh poem of the day. Continue reading