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Posted on Oct 14, 2022

A Tanka As The Bells A-Peel

Please.

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Posted on Sep 26, 2022Sep 26, 2022

Pointless Whimsy

Oops…

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Posted on Sep 25, 2022

South-West; North-East

To be honest… it was fine.

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Posted on Sep 24, 2022

Brunel’s Butt’ry Sanwidge Shoppe

Relatively cold, this breezesome morning – bracing.

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Posted on Sep 18, 2022

North-East; South-West

I saw the sunset, seeping low, beyond the estate houses.

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Posted on Aug 22, 2022

Begging

I’m in two minds.

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Posted on Aug 12, 2022

At Shambles’ End

A-shambling through the queue.

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Posted on Jul 9, 2022

Coffee & Pineapple Juice

I’ve left some leaflets ‘n some booklets.

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Posted on Jun 11, 2022

Verse (Brief ‘N Free) From Hay-On-Wye

HHhOHff! grrererrrrururr?!

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Posted on Jun 2, 2022Jun 2, 2022

At The Old Electric Shop

The crow in the cage cawcackles.

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Posted on May 16, 2022May 24, 2022

Versing (Freely)

That’s now (then) & here (there), though.

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Posted on Apr 19, 2022

Two Poems For Kawakami-San

ぼくはちちとらんに惚れます.

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Posted on Apr 6, 2022

A Tanka From A Scrap Of Sonnet

Here I sit.

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Posted on Mar 23, 2022

On An Evening

A moment clear.

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Posted on Mar 6, 2022

A Poetry Reading

A live reading of “At The Entrance Of The Afternoon” & “A List Of Things I Noticed At The Harbour”.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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