Words
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.
Pay the Writer!
Would Dr Samuel Johnson have agreed with SF writer Harlan Ellison? No one but a fool ever wrote for anything but money!
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.
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.
Siggy Sought a Syzygy
Comic nonsense poem to illustrate the poetic term syzygy (a form of alliteration).
Together in Cordoba – the complete picture
Poem and illustration produced as my contribution to an Internet-based co-operative project.
Together in Cordoba
A poem and illustration (in four more detailed parts) produced as my contribution to an Internet-based co-operative project.