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.
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.
Into that Good Night
Poem that cannibalises a famous line from Dylan Thomas to play with the word “raillery”.
Athropos and Mnemosyne
Short poem commenting on senility by reference to Greek mythology.
If I Were Vociferous
Poem that recycles a verse from a lyric by Tanita Tikaram to illustrate the Twitter-based wordgame Artwiculate’s Word of the Day Vociferous.
Vociferous weather
Poem descriptive of the weather at the time it was composed.
Siggy Sought a Syzygy
Comic nonsense poem to illustrate the poetic term syzygy (a form of alliteration).