Tag: reading
Noise
What is it? It’s life itself and sometimes it gets too loud. Then that reputation you built based on reading and writing poems everyday goes London Bridge is falling down , falling down, falling down. But it is not that simple. Just when you conclude that maybe noise can take … Continue Reading Noise
A poet’s timeline
I’ve been perusing a great many twitter timelines on twitter lately. One timeline that I find delightful is this one by George Szirtes: https://twitter.com/george_szirtes. He writes a series of one poem or maybe a continuous theme in 140 characters. The poem I followed was posted at various times of the day. … Continue Reading A poet’s timeline
Reading with my Smartphone
Reading on your smartphone can be a bit addictive and maybe even laced with distraction but have you ever tried reading your paperback or hardcover with your smartphone? Books are often very geography specific. It’s one thing watching a movie about a story set in a moor and quite another reading … Continue Reading Reading with my Smartphone
Muse Stop
Shut your doors/slide your windows/stand still/do not breathe/ do not count to three/ do not tell the monkey in your head to stop jumping/shaking the leaves/falling the fruit/stop/do not look back/if you do you will reach the edge/ if you do you will fall off the world as flat as … Continue Reading Muse Stop
Reading Everything begins Elsewhere
Tishani Doshi’s slight book of poems ‘Everything begins Elsewhere’ has two parts- most poetry books are divided this way into parts. The first part is Everything begins. Where does everything begin? Have you thought of the beginnings of love, beauty, terror and the wind? Endings are something people think of … Continue Reading Reading Everything begins Elsewhere
Thinking about ‘People who Like Meatballs’
Aspiring Writer
I don’t know what you make of writer’s manuals and advice given to young writers, middle aged writers, the new Justin Biebers of fiction, etc. Do singers read manuals too or dancers? Me? Well I do read any kind of “Twenty five best ways to become Published” or “Fifty five … Continue Reading Aspiring Writer
The Bookish Squirrel
There is a squirrel that keeps climbing through my window…a bookish squirrel….part of a poem for this inquisitive creature……. Knock Knock May I come in Sir/Madam? This is a wondrous place With a bookshelf of wood And books lined like soldiers Waiting to why die with bullets? The door … Continue Reading The Bookish Squirrel