Arrived

In my ‘Coming Soon’ post of 18th May, I mentioned having a forthcoming poem in the creative writing journal Antae. The complete journal and this poem – a discursive piece about Samuel Taylor Coleridge – has now arrived. I am posting the poem for anyone wanting an immediate read, but to explore the work from others, you will find it here.

My thanks to the editors and all others who worked so hard to get this journal prepared for publication.

Better Words

Having yesterday played around with some linguistic siliness about English/American words, I followed this up with an illustrative tea/supper of homemade sausage roll and ‘B&M Original Baked Beans with molasses, pork and spices’. Here is the initial context and prompt:

I have today thought about an earlier expression of this in my memoir, using better words to articulate the language nuances (spellings and pronunciations…):