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The Clachanpluck Poems
I still seem to be stuck in poetry mode at the moment, although these little verses came about in a slightly different fashion. It’s all Facebook’s fault. Well, actually, that’s not quite true, it’s all a guy called Phil McMenemy’s fault. No, that’s not entirely true either, let me explain… Phil McMenemy is a photographer.
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The Hills
When you’re on a roll, you’re on a roll. Yet another poem. This one isn’t dark, it isn’t angsty and it isn’t an airy-fairy exercise in writing some particular form or other, it’s just a poem. I suppose it might be in ballad form. Or possibly something else altogether – my technical knowledge of poesy
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If I had known…
More poetry today – and this one is deliberately a little bit of an arty-farty exercise. It’s also another slightly dark one. Well, maybe not dark, but a bit angsty and the kind of thing that a simpering 18th or 19th century poet-wannabe might have come up with during his teenage years when he was
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At the End
When not trying to dream up characters or plots or similar fictional devices (and when not being silly on Facebook or elsewhere) I sometimes try my hand at a bit of poetry. Although it is often maligned for being “up its own bottom” or “arty-farty” (particularly when it comes to modern blank-verse forms) and there
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Dinner Date
Authors, critics and experts on writing have identified various models for the creation of characters. One particular model offers four ways to create a character: purely from the imagination (the “ideal” character); by the author basing the character on themselves; by the author basing the character on someone they know (or have observed); or by
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