Yesterday, I wrote a rather puerile parody of the last section of Kubla Khan . The original contains one of the greatest crescendos in Engl...

I have just this second been sent an e-mail containing a word I'd never hear before: worrywart . Isn't that a lovely word? It means...

Just one more. A honeymoon is so-called because the honey-sweet and mellifluous part of a marriage is traditionally meant to last for one...

Only Lewis Carroll would think of writing this: I've been trying to come up with my own version and it's a lot harder than one m...

There's a Chinese poem called Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi . The reason for the title should be obvious if you read the poem in Westernised scri...

The idea of the Internet is that it should bring people together. Perverts are a good example. In 1990 a haddock fetishist was a lonely fel...

Once, on a five hour train journey, I developed a brand new verse form. The rule was that every line had to be an anagram of my full name. ...

This may seem to be a long and meandering post on verse form but it will get somewhere. I believe it will get into Shakespeare's method...

My favourite poetic meter is the acephalous iambic tetrameter. If that opening sentence doesn't have you weeing in your intellectual na...

As a little follow up to Monday's post on which were the most quoted lines of poetry on the internet, I have invented a new* verse for...

In 1883 Alphonse Allais exhibited a painting called First Communion of Anaemic Young Girls In The Snow , which was of course a white canva...