What are Haiku, Senryu and Tanka?
I have copied this form https://akitahaiku.com/what-are-haiku-senryu-and-tanka/. The site is Japanese although mainly using english. It may be closing down as i...
Category: Miscellaneous
It is not with ideas that we write verses … it is with words
Since I’ve been dickering and dabbling with poetry I’ve had quite a lot of ideas for poems, or short stories perhaps. The trouble is that the ideas ...
Creative Writing in Lockdown
It’s a month since I’ve posted here, just before the coronavirus lock-down started on Tuesday 24th March. This also coincided with starting a new on...
Autofiction as Palimpsest
Autofiction, perhaps better called autobiographical fiction, has become a genre of writing in vogue. The term was coined in 1977 but the genre is much older. It...
Unshackling the unconscious: reflection on writing a cento and the I Ching.
In my creative writing class we recently did an exercise writing a cento. This is a poem made up from lines taken from other poets existing work, each line is t...
Exercise in micro-fiction
Micro-fictions are short stories of 100 words or less. I have three to write as this week’s homework for my creative writing class, all referencing in som...
Autofiction
Autofiction, perhaps better called autobiographical fiction, has become a genre of writing in vogue. The term was coined in 1977 but the genre is much older. It...
Novella-in-flash
New class has started. It is the sister course to the one I’ve done already but is longer established with a more experienced group many of whom are publi...
The Poet’s Revolt: A Brief Guide to the Prose Poem
When I restart the creative writing class this September I will be joining the advanced group. The first session will be on prose poetry in preparation for thos...
The Art of Memory
We were sitting in an Indian restaurant in Brighton. The party was split over two tables as there was not room for all 18 to sit at one. The parents, grandparen...