A Wee Bit of Silliness – “It Wants Eating, Does It?”
Ah, it’s Spring and time for Spring-cleaning. (Happy Belated First of May!) When I was looking into the freezer toContinue Reading
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A New Winter Poemlet
We were schlepping through the deep snow on the trail near our house a few weeks ago, and it wasContinue Reading
It is Spring – Here’s a lento for a tulip
The tulips came up a treat this month, and our little garden is looking quite festive. Posting on Facebook, myContinue Reading
Where does inspiration come from? (and a poem about music)
I recently completed a collection of compositions that share the theme of heat. It’s called Thermós, and, until today, IContinue Reading
I recognize that lump of rock – Alexa, what is there to know about love, by Brian Bilston
I’m intrigued by those things called Google Easter Eggs – which is the result you get if you type aContinue Reading
A rant in rhyme in praise of rain
The header image of this post is worded “un noo po-him”, or “ə ˈnuː ˈpoʊəm”, phonetically spelled: a new poem.Continue Reading
A poem about the first snowfall of the season
Today was the first snowfall of the Winter, and we woke up to the brightness of snow blanketing everything outsideContinue Reading
Can you actually recite a famous poem? Bet you can’t.
I thunk me a thought these past few days, which was this: people were telling huge fibs about poetry, judgingContinue Reading
A poem about a Declaration
When you are waiting for someone to say something that you really, really want to hear, even the softest whisperContinue Reading
Mahmoud Darwish died 13 years ago today, but his words are immortal
One of the artists to whom Leila Marshy refers in her novel The Philistine, which I recently reviewed, is theContinue Reading
So you want to be a writer?
On the subscription film channel, MUBI, there’s a documentary about the writer Charles Bukowski (1920 – 1994), who wrote acerbic,Continue Reading
A small poem about Spring
I was baking and heard the birds through the open window, and thought, these things mean it’s Spring. SIGNS TheContinue Reading
“Rooted” – A mono-rhyme poem
Here’s a new poem I’ve written, called “Rooted”. I saw these tangled, blood-red tree roots while we were out onContinue Reading
The Colours of Cold
I was thinking about a comment that Fran, one of the bloggers whom I follow, made the other day aboutContinue Reading
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From Babel to Borne – Upcoming Publications from Favourite Authors
What are my favourite authors doing next? My favourite authors have new works in the works, pardon the pun, soContinue Reading
A Source for the Perfect Rhyme? Sorry, there’s no easy solution
Rhyming is devilishly difficult. It’s a serious head-scratcher, as people who write poems, lyrics and rap well know. If youContinue Reading
A poem for Canada Day – “Home”
Today, July 1, is Canada Day. I am a Canadian, and this is what is means to me. Home byContinue Reading
“When Facebook Went Down”, “The Germs of Love”, and other new silly rhymes
Here are four new rhymes; about the 13th of March when Facebook crashed, about someone who can’t sing, about catchingContinue Reading
Mining Lullaby and Office Blues
I work for a firm of consulting engineers in the oil & gas and mining industries (my day job, whichContinue Reading
Today’s Loose Rhymes – emails and airplanes
I’ve been putting my poems on my poem-page on this website, mostly for my own amusement. I’ve noticed that justContinue Reading
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A novel about a poet that’s filled with delightful poetry – Diary of a Somebody, by Brian Bilston
Comment from Brian Bilston: Brian Bilston “What a lovely review. Thank you so much. I’m delighted you enjoyed it – andContinue Reading
Review in a 48-second video – You Took the Last Bus Home, by Brian Bilston
Compact Crits #6: 48-second review of You Took the Last Bus Home, by Brian Bilston (poetry) Here’s the full reviewContinue Reading
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Manipulating words like Legos – You Took the Last Bus Home, by Brian Bilston
Brian Bilston’s first anthology of poetry contains more than 200 poems, and despite some of them being only four linesContinue Reading
The funny, thoughtful poems of Brian Bilston, the Twitter poet
Brian Bilston’s saucy, witty and insightful poems on Twitter (@brian_bilston) have made him famous. In this podcast (recorded in 2016,Continue Reading
Poetry that mixes mother tongues – and my poem about my Grandma
It is very hard to make two different languages rhyme. This struck me again when I was researching the phoneticContinue Reading
100 Reviews and counting
Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy – coming up – will be the subject of the 100th book review I’ve written inContinue Reading
William Shakespeare’s Star Wars – Verily, A New Hope, by Ian Doescher
Skip the poetry, go to the Full review A Review of This Fine Tale, in Blank Verse and A HeroicContinue Reading
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