Fox on a Boat

Hi all! I've not been posting as much as I would like to, though I do have a post up my sleeve which will be written between now and mid-April.. However I really wanted to write something for World Poetry Day, so I'm going to post links to some poems I like. If you check my Facebook page, I have quoted a few poems already. Guilt by John Betjeman This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin Things by Fleur Adcock Station by Connie Bensley  (from Poems on the Underground) Day in Autumn by Rilke These are just a few poems I like or find interesting. 'Guilt' is probably my favourite of these five. Thanks for reading, and if you like my blog, remember to check my FB page for more updates and quotes.

During Poetry Parnassus here in London, at Southbank, I went to a poetry workshop run by Poems On The Underground. I joined a small group of people led by an older woman, armed with clipboard, paper and pen. Thanks to London's wonderful transport system, (and admittedly, my own slight lateness), I'd missed about 5 minutes of the workshop, so arrived as the group was completing the first task: Write three lies about yourself. I listened as the group all lied in turn, and we moved to the next task, which was to write three fantasies. I slightly misunderstood and wrote three big lies - but what we had to write was three IMPOSSIBLE things. My statements were all possible, but they still did their job, which was to spark a poem idea. One girl wrote about her pet lion called Jeffrey, which was pretty cool. She'd written it from the perspective of a rejected lover, and the mixing of the two 'plots' was nicely done. Another wrote about a pink unicorn, which was slightly...