Category Archives: Poetry

In The Bleak Two Rivers – a Wheel of Time poem

Posted on 25 December 2015 by Dove

Hello again. If you don’t remember my Thomas Covenant retelling of Twas the Night Before Christmas, then… follow this link and then you will! As I finished reading the Wheel of Time only this year, I thought it was only … Continue reading →

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A True Story Poem

Posted on 25 October 2015 by Dove

I’m finally doing my last bit of typing up before NaNoWriMo begins, and I came across a poem I wrote ages ago, or in August or something. Nothing in particular to recommend – if you want to know my unsolicited … Continue reading →

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Poem about how hot it is #3

Posted on 2 September 2015 by Dove

It’s finally got hot and muggy again, so it doesn’t feel weird to be writing about the heat. Conflicted hurray! I haven’t been reading any poetry recently, alas, so no recommendations or opinions. Only prose. So much prose. When I … Continue reading →

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Poem about how hot it is #2

Posted on 23 August 2015 by Dove

Hello friends. Not a huge amount of poetry recommendation today, partly because I’m still stuck in the flytrap-sticky, rabbit hole world of Alan Turing and partly because the only other poetry I have read recently is by Adrienne Rich, and … Continue reading →

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Poem about how hot it is #1

Posted on 18 August 2015 by Dove

It’s been a while. It’s been so long, in fact, that it’s no longer particularly hot in Frankfurt (though it will return to your regularly scheduled 28 degrees this weekend, apparently). Let’s start with a recommendation of actual good poetry, … Continue reading →

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Surprise Poem! and unsurprising recc

Posted on 3 July 2015 by Dove

So, I finished Burger’s Daughter by Nadine Gordimer last night. My initial impressions were unchanged – it’s a great, nuanced, complex story about identity. About how our upbringings shape who we are and who we want to be and who … Continue reading →

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Poem – no recc

Posted on 25 June 2015 by Dove

I only have one more poem to share from this session. After this I’ll no doubt start moving some other old stuff over here though. No recommendations today, as I just finished Grey and although I appreciated the closure on … Continue reading →

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Penultimate Poem and Review

Posted on 21 June 2015 by Dove

Time to post the second-last of my poetry binge. Try not to be too sad. Before that though, I have this much-vaunted reading list which is like my actual child right now. I’m never going to get to the end … Continue reading →

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Poem and Recc

Posted on 19 June 2015 by Dove

Poem time again! First, I want to leave a recommendation here, instead of just presenting my ridiculous free verse. It’s kind of like a “Here’s what you could have won” sort of deal. I want to introduce you to someone … Continue reading →

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Sunday Poem

Posted on 14 June 2015 by Dove

Let’s try to make this semi-regular, until I run out of poems! I was wary about doing nothing but write poems about myself, but I think to an extent I have anyway 🙁 OH WELL. This one’s about hayfever. It’s … Continue reading →

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