Welcome to Poetry 101! The revision podcast that teaches you how, why, and where you already know it from. Every episode we are take a poem your teacher might give you and a song you probably know and investigate a literary technique, so that next time you have an exam or an essay you’re prepared.... Continue Reading →
Poetry 101:1 – Summarise
transcript of a podcast I wrote on how to decode poetry at a basic level. episode 1 - summarise.
Japan.
I wish I could give you Hokkaido winter like you want it. Independence, structure, cultural benevolence ought to be a simple inheritence. I'm not disinterested but I don't know what it holds for me to be in a place where I can't speak, can't understand. Where my very bones ache with the cold, the two... Continue Reading →
Irish Culture
A poem about love and escaping... and Irish arts funding.
Hotel room food network
A short love poem set on holiday.
Georgia Skies
A short poem written during my PhD work on Gone With The Wind.
Five Towns and Fenton
A poem about seeing somebody you used to know well and being ignored.
Entrance C
A poem about the awkwardness of ordering takeaway when you live in a flat.
Drummond Street
Alphabet Superset week 4 do-over, about a place (as it should be)
Dragging Myself Over A Hurdle.
Alphabet Superset week 4 is about struggling with this week's challenge (the letter D).