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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.

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Skiing downhill, with or without an audience

24 November, 2021

Skiing downhill was never my strong suit – let’s face it, skiing was never my strong suit – but once upon a time I used to ski every winter.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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A November Legacy – looking back at TheSupercargo

12 January, 202210 November, 2021

After all these years there’s a legacy of posts at TheSupercargo stretching back for 10+ years; here are some November adjacent ones.

Categories Articulations, At the Quill, Commonplace, Images, Stops and Stories
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An Autumn Haunted Cinquain – a seasonal poem

7 October, 20216 October, 2021

An Autumn Haunted Cinquain is a poem of horror and fog – and about words and wordplay on Twitter. A poem from 10 years ago, revisited.

Categories Articulations, Poem
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Shanks’s pony is getting tired

22 September, 2021

Shanks’s Pony is an old idiom for feet and walking. I’ve been having problems with my feet – they don’t like carrying me any more.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Doggerland to Aeyland and back in time for tea

8 September, 2021

Doggerland is the made-up name for a place that really existed and for which there is archaeological evidence. Aeyland is complete fiction.

Categories Articulations, Exhibition, Stops and Stories
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Guilty secret – flash fiction

4 August, 2021

Guilty secret is a piece of flash fiction originally published last year in Far Flung, the last Writers Abroad anthology.

Categories Articulations, Story
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Fire in the Bowl or Cinderella and the Flaming Deposit

28 July, 2021

Fire in the bowl, or Cinderella and the flaming deposit, a supposedly eco-friendly adventure from my recent holiday (though I have my doubts)

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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A Dear John letter from my father

23 June, 2021

A writing prompt on the website of my writers’ group has me counterfeiting a letter my father might have written to me.

Categories Articulations, Memoir
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Thinking how to translate Jana Kippo

20 May, 2021

Jana Kippo is the protagonist of a recent successful trilogy of novels in Swedish by Karin Smirnoff. I ponder, and try my hand at translating.

Categories Articulations, Book Review, Translation
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Beach Green bungalow – some of my earliest memories

21 April, 2021

The bungalow at Beach Green in Shoreham-by-Sea was the third place I lived, but the first place I have clear memories of.

Categories Articulations, Memoir
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Most popular posts published in 2022

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Michael Rosen and Many Different Kinds of Love (January)
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Writing a wreath – adventures in poetry (February)
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Bruce and the Spider – writing resolutions in 2022 (January)
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Impressions from the SWF22 (August)
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Return to Tema: the search for house and school (March)

Most popular posts from earlier years

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Liminal places: on the threshold – a reading diary (2021)
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Thinking how to translate Jana Kippo (2021)
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Jamestown, Accra: walking through history with Collins and Lee (2020)
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Bringing up the Bodies from Wolf Hall (2020)
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Curse words we all use – but less often nowadays (2021)
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A couple of days in Maastricht (2016)
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