Articulating myself
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Articulations
Articulations: Examples of my creative writing: aphorisms, poems, short stories, humour (“humour”), (auto)biography, translations and more. Read Articulating myself for more details or scroll down.
Tea with the Hatter
Tea with the Hatter or The Phrenological Conformatory – a horror story. The Hatter introduces his conformatory to a overly trusting visitor.
Lovers – a story for Valentine’s Day
From the shadows where they were hidden, pressed against one another, side by side, the lovers gazed out at the moon-washed promenade.
Steel fabricating under the arches
One of my first jobs after graduating from university – I worked for a steel fabricating company under the arches near Leeds station.
Does a poem a day keep the engine turning over?
For nearly three months I’ve been writing a poem a day as a creative writing dscipline and I’m quite pleased with how it’s turning out.
Swimming race to disappointment
Translation of 5 pages from Alex Schulmann’s Överlevarna – The Survivors: three brother race one another, swimming too far out in the lake.
A Sandstorm Summer Holiday – a memory from 1968
A Sandstorm Summer Holiday – not the best advert for Lytham St Annes, I’m afraid. This is an attempt to write autobiographical flash fiction.
Pinman lives a dangerous life
The pinman in the hazard triangle lives a dangerous life. Here’s a sonnet to celebrate his superhuman contribution to human safety.
Return to Tema: the search for house and school
Part 2 of The Return to Tema, in which, in 2018, I search for the house I remember living in and the school I attended back in 1963 and 1964.
Return to Tema: the motorway then and now
On the Accra-Tema Motorway: first part of a report on my return to Tema, Ghana, 50 years on from when I was there as a child in 1963-64.
Writing a wreath – adventures in poetry
In which the author shares an eight-line wreath poem in iambic tetrameter, and atempts to explain how and why he went about writing it.