Occasional Terrible Poetry: An Exceptionally Poor Contribution To (The Brilliant) National Poetry Month

My publishers*, Salt, posted this fabulous poster for National Poetry Month on their Facebook newsfeed. It’s part of a gorgeous, funny, clever campaign that the creative team clearly had loads of fun with. I would personally like to buy the t-shirts of pretty much all of them. I wasn’t the only person to feel compelled [...]

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Occasional Terrible Poetry: Limerick Prompt

Written to The Prompt: A Limerick With The First Line, “There Was A Young Man From Vancouver” There was a young man from Vancouver Who didn’t understand limericks, like, at all. On the other hand He was quite good at Haiku But, no-one liked them.

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Occasional Terrible Poetry: The Jar Of Nastiness

From: May, Ian Sent: 10 June 2011 15:53 To: ’Deborah May’; Louise Fowle; ‘Cassandra’; ‘judy may’ Subject: Wednesday, bottled This was the outcome of my Wednesday’s work. I have to write a technical report on it. Ian From: Cassandra To: ’Ian May’; ’Deborah May’; Louise Fowle; ‘Cassandra’; ‘judy may’ Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 12:13 PM Subject: Re: Wednesday, bottled You know, what that [...]

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