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Posted on July 10, 2019October 27, 2019

The Floating Harbour: a serialised novel

Written between January, 2016 and August, 2019.

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Posted on July 9, 2019

Hamlet In Haiku: Act 5

Knaves and jesters, all.

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Posted on July 9, 2019

Hamlet In Haiku: Act 4

With sweet flowers, go.

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Posted on July 8, 2019August 14, 2019

Between That Postbox & Those Steps Beside The River

A river, there, reflects the moment.

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Posted on July 8, 2019

Hamlet In Haiku: Act 3

Paralysis of action.

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Posted on July 7, 2019

Hamlet In Haiku: Act 2

Stricken fair-lovelorn.

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Posted on July 7, 2019July 7, 2019

Rambling To Close

P’rhaps I’ll throw this out on WordPress.

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Posted on July 7, 2019

Hamlet In Haiku: Act 1

Alone in grief sustained.

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Posted on July 6, 2019

Oh… Well That Changes Things

Sounds, not syllables.

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Posted on July 6, 2019

Excerpts: a trailer for a novel

And all is rather still.

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Posted on July 4, 2019December 11, 2025

I Saw Three Leaves

Whither, whence, did the rolling wind take up those leaves?

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Posted on July 2, 2019

Again.

Somewhere. Somewhen.

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Posted on July 2, 2019July 2, 2019

A Haiku And Another Haiku Shortly After The First Haiku

Three, two, one.

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Posted on July 1, 2019

Tanka, With A Rhyming Couplet

The city is mapped.

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Posted on June 30, 2019

Of The World; Of Animals

A code of arrationality and potent instinct.

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Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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