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.
The Morning After
Short lexicographical and etymological poem exploring various forms of a word sometimes used to describe how one feels after a night of drinking.
Robert d’Boy
Beware of Robert the Boy! Piece of comic nonsense verse composed around the word hobbledehoy.
Zelda the Zealot
Comic poem in rhyming couplets illustrated by photographs of a cat climbing a tree, playing in snow or curled asleep.
An die Schadenfreude
In fact, Beethoven’s original title for “An die Freude” was “An die Schadenfreude”, but Schiller objected.
A Short, Inaccurate History of Statism
A tendentious history of (mostly Western) politics since the French Revolution in a series of twitter-length bites.
The Epiphany of St Callous of Acrimony
Epiphany was the word of the day on Artwiculate – three days before the Epiphany of January 2011. As good an excuse as any for further fantasies woven about the personality of St Callous of Acrimony.
Ten Things in a Public Swimmingpool
Ten things that can upset your pleasure when you are swimming in a public swimmingpool.