Mischief is your topic today; that specific brand of naughtiness that sits on the edge of danger or malice.
Category Archives: Readings and writings
#19: Cleaning up
For the duration of lockdown in England, you can join our online poetry community, Try to Praise the Mutilated World. The prompts are here every day, and free. Access to our Facebook workshopping group costs £10. The group is a place for mutual feedback, and is private so that your work in progress is unpublished. We haveContinue reading “#19: Cleaning up”
#18: Ode to whatever
On goes the lockdown in England, and on goes our online poetry community, Try to Praise the Mutilated World. The prompts are here every day, and free. Access to our Facebook workshopping group costs £10, and lasts for the duration of this lockdown. The group is a place for mutual feedback, and is private so that yourContinue reading “#18: Ode to whatever”
#17: Silence please
Today, your subject for poetry is silence… an un-thing, an absence of sound, an opposite.
#16: Monumental
Lockdown continues in England, and so does our citizen poetry project, Try to Praise the Mutilated World. The prompts are here every day, and free. Access to our Facebook workshopping group costs £10, and lasts for the duration of this lockdown. The group is a place for mutual feedback, and is private so that your work inContinue reading “#16: Monumental”
#15: Contact
Right now, we can’t reach out to each other physically. But we can write something that reminds us to never take contact for granted again.
#14: Work
We are halfway through lockdown in England, and our online poetry community, Try to Praise the Mutilated World, continues. The prompts are here every day, and free. Access to our Facebook workshopping group costs £10, and lasts for the duration of this lockdown. The group is a place for mutual feedback, and is private so that yourContinue reading “#14: Work”
#13: Getting better
As lockdown continues in England, so does our global poetry community, Try to Praise the Mutilated World. The prompts are here every day, and free. Access to our Facebook workshopping group costs £10, and lasts for the duration of the lockdown. The group is a place for mutual feedback, and is private so that your work inContinue reading “#13: Getting better”
#12: Only connect
We can use this unasked-for, uncertain time as a catalyst for unexpected art. Today, I ask you to connect to someone, somewhere in a different place or time.
#11: Sleepyhead
Sleep is the hard-earned peace at the end of the day, the time when dreams defragment the brain’s hard drive – and your subject for today.