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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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Return to Tema: the search for house and school

16 March, 2022

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.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Return to Tema: the motorway then and now

12 February, 20249 March, 2022

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.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Writing a wreath – adventures in poetry

15 September, 202223 February, 2022

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.

Categories Articulations, At the Quill, Poem
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A Man Walks into a Bank – Flash Fiction

5 December, 20211 December, 2021

A man walks into a bank wearing nothing but a smile … This was the FlashNano prompt for 23rd November, and this short story was my response.

Categories Articulations, Story
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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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Most popular posts published in 2023

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It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover – a review (March)
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Character building with Lajos Egri (May)
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You are you and that’s Okey! Photos from Stockholm (September)
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It’s the end of the world and X marks the spot (August)
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Juxtaposition and Creativity (May)

Most popular posts from earlier years

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Jamestown, Accra: walking through history with Collins and Lee (2020)
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The Gothenburg disco fire – 20 years on (2018)
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Antiques and memories (2015)
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Vai: across the South Pacific – a review (2020)
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The short summer night – a translation (2020)
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