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Temas

• My Poetry
• Other people\'s poetry
• The Creative Process
• Culture Shock (Comedy of manners)
• Assorted

2010

• Gin-tonic haibun
• My favorite Gapingvoid cartoon
• El día de la mujer
• Curarlo "todo"
• La Denuncia Falsa

2009

• Frikismo y mendicidad // geekiness and begging
• New haikus / Haikus nuevos

2008

• Spanish nationality

2007

• Undo
• Best of 2007
• let's assume
• Recycling the disposable
• Unusual insult
• Graffitti
• The end is never really the end.
• Blogday
• Antonio Puerta, the epic hero
• Metric questions
• Interesting methods of the British police // Los métodos de la policía británica
• Women aren't islands either // Y las mujeres tampoco son islas
• When all else fails, tea.
• A nightmare
• Here comes the sun, to do do doo.
• Do not go gentle
• Unusual habits (a meme)
• Beautiful
• Clubbing etiquette
• Definition
• Calm and stillness
• Zen
• Dirt
• More namelessness
• Don't mention it
• Searches for poetry and culture shock
• Spices & fibs.
• The body knows.
• Prose poetry
• The heart
• Edwin Morgan (again).
• Choosing friends
• Going with the times
• Ambition
• Eavesdropping
• Noche de Reyes

2006

• ¿Alguien quiere un coche?
• Weathering / Aging
• Christmassy
• Tiredness
• Magic
• The Phone Tanka
• Speed and Bacon
• Hope
• Happy Thanksgiving-Blog-Birthday
• A letter to Martyn
• Count Your Sheep
• Orange blossom at the wrong time.
• This is a public service announcement
• A good father
• This is poetry too
• Rainbows
• Autumnal
• The Eye of the Beholder
• On Russians, Muslims, and modern warfare
• Libraries, once more
• Is erotic haiku possible?
• Hospital haiku
• On creativity, mediocrity and love.
• Poetry and Beauty.
• Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
• Pequeño aviso de emergencia
• The creative process as seen by Toteking
• Catullus
• Prose
• Happy Blogday
• Deaf poetry
• Pluto
• Chinese babies
• On cancer
• On hands again
• More simplicity.
• Who cares?
• Of Spanish women and the News.
• the classical haiku and syllable count
• Forty five (a death haiku)
• The all-new bra ordeal: Bikinis.
• Ridiculous areas of power
• Bukowski 2
• Does feeling equal suffering?
• A poem for the weekend
• erotic poetry by e.e.cummings
• zooommmm
• Obsessive
• A case of you by Joni Mitchell
• Dance haiku
• World Press Photo
• The world according to Americans
• Innocence
• List poem (an homage to Sei Shonagon)
• Happy Bloomsday, everyone!
• Misoginy never ceases to amaze me
• it's raining
• Lovers
• Women and friendship
• Seamus Heaney
• El rayo que no cesa
• Dark matter, 2
• The poetry of the Universe
• Hmmmmm, yummy
• Brutally honest. And rhymed too.
• The best haiku in the English language
• Wishes
• Announcement
• Blues with a soul disguise
• What makes us humans?
• Geek pride day
• Barthes, e.e.cummings, a lover and a redhead
• The long tail
• History of Western Poetry.
• A reason of artistic inspiration?
• Guiris
• More mothers (a tanka)
• Mothers to the rescue!
• a two-line haiku
• New York??
• Happy birthday, Bono
• Banks and bars
• Love and statistics
• Sevilla: Blogger's Meet, Ninth Edition.
• And that's a beginning
• Pretty flowers
• Work in progress
• Back catalogue
• John Donne
• Book Day
• Horror Tanka
• How to locate the Pharmacy Building
• Let's say this again
• Unfinished?
• Lust and Gluttony
• A fairy tale of sorts
• Little by little
• Young, modern Spanish poets (insert sarcasm here)
• How To Write a Political Poem by Taylor Mali.
• Martial Arts.
• Saidi haiku!
• A new bookshop
• The Archaeopteryx's Song by Edwin Morgan
• When sorrow is fashionable.
• Poetry and beauty
• Happy Spring
• ¡Ah, la luna!
• Cliché?
• Joni Mitchell
• The beginning of spring: the orange blossom tanka
• Jazz
• Sarcasm
• Sappho
• Irish and sour
• Anonymous
• Japanese haiku by women
• Women and poetry
• Dorothy Parker
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Traffic and sex
• Mourning
• All poets are....
• Zifras y Letras, la Crónica (Seville Bloggers Meet, again)
• Glasgow
• See you next week
• Not meant to be taken seriously.
• Damned if you do, damned if you don't
• The Prisoner's Dilemma
• Poetry and our origins (at the Sevilla bloggers meet)
• a new one
• Tiny and sentimental.
• The Wall Poems of Leiden
• The speck of truth in every stereotype
• Men's wedding fashions
• The local performing arts scene
• the bridges, the bridges
• Self-referential
• Juliet Wilson
• Underwear ordeal.
• Euphemisms.
• Seen every day.
• Happy Burns Night
• Roots
• To Martyn Bennett, now immortal.
• Adjectives
• Hmmm.... erotic haiku!
• Democracy in Chile
• The Chello
• Language death and the death of gods.
• Surreal haiku
• A list poem

2005

• Cars and computers
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
• Happy holidays.
• Insurance.
• Latest poem
• Happy Birthday
• On libraries, again
• Making bridges
• Tom McGrath
• Smile
• A fairy tale.
• The UK is such a civilised country
• Trainspotting the book: a sample.
• Trainspotting the movie: Is it a comedy?
• I hate William Gibson
• We're one year old today
• Exoticism is just another form of racism
• Lost in translation: English to Spanish
• Sunday Haiku (one day late)
• Racism and jewelry
• Torture
• Latest haiku
• Rivers.
• Hunger
• Birds
• Young people
• List Poems
• Patriot Watch
• Because it\'s cloudy and I want a storm.
• Shakespeare vs, Britney Spears?
• Wilma madness
• Where have all the clocks gone?
• Death couplets by e. e. cummings
• Terrible losses
• Preferred and dispreferred responses
• Bush Countdown!
• Religion in schools, both sides of the Atlantic.
• Thomas Middleton
• Saudade
• Singing in the rain
• Delirium
• Three years later.
• Schedules (because stereotypes are sometimes true)
• Virginia Woolf as a literary critic
• Los Planetas and haikus
• Del Doughty (another modern haiku writer, yay)
• Iker Garai
• "In this country"
• Jaime Galbarro
• In Seville, time is elastic
• Nickel and dimed
• Happy (late) birthday, Zifra
• Hate song for a lazy Muse
• Bukowski 1
• A little lullaby
• Hurricane March 11th
• Hurricane Prestige
• Intertextuality
• American and patriotic
• Another New Orleans song
• Hurricane Katrina and art
• Lyrical Neosurrealism (again)
• Sherlock Holmes and misoginy
• Happy Blogday
• Grice's Maxims, 4 and last: of brevity.
• Charles Dickens in the news
• Free sex!
• Homeless kids
• A cold poem for a lovely summer day
• I carry your heart with me
• Leonard Cohen again.
• An enlightened young soul
• The Jewelry Shop has had a makeover
• Swimwear
• Summer is a slow time
• Poems for Martin
• Babies are great
• Jacaranda
• Grice Maxims 3: of relevance.
• Theatres in good health
• Oriental dance blog (shameless self-promotion)
• The role of organised religion in Universities, both sides of the Atlantic.
• Queer art again.
• Music meme
• Traffic
• the hughpage and the eternal conflict on jewel prices
• Movies on heroism, both sides of the Atlantic.
• A new haiku
• Whatever you do, don't mention the "P" word
• Libraries and influences
• If I was....
• I´m home: I´m back to Alan Spence
• Grice's Maxims 2: of politeness.
• A definition of commedy of manners
• Commedy of manners: "A ver si quedamos"
• Leaving Ithaca
• Grice´s Maxims 1 (How to Write)
• Hairdressers' Names
• Hairdressers' Names
• the Ginkgo Tanka
• A company from where?
• I google love.
• Shakespeare, Sonnet 130 as haiku.
• "Like"
• Desire and fulfilment
• rags to riches
• From a song by Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Getting paid to be a student
• Unravel by Björk
• The language of American movie-goers
• Hollywood treatment for Spanish movies
• Translation and adaptation, 9 and last.
• Creationism
• Translation and adaptation 8
• Where is Spain?
• Translation and adaptation 7
• Adventures in the UK's welfare system
• Translation and adaptation 6
• A rose by any other name gets very annoyed
• Translation and adaptation 5
• Porn and hipocrisy
• Translation and adaptation 4
• Acts of God?
• Same-sex marriage and Franco
• Translation and adaptation 3
• Lorca (a summer poem)
• Translation and adaptation 2
• The supermarket
• A song for a Sunday morning
• Libraries: on the use of the space.
• Feliz Cumpleaños, Irene
• Lost in translation into English
• You are my inspiration (Eres mi musa)
• Christians and Marriage.
• Adam Harvey and Finnegans Wake
• Waivers
• Bloomsday!
• Translations and adaptations 1
• Languages in which I could write
• Neil Gaiman writes about the purpose of Art.
• Why I like Alan Spence so much
• The South is a state of mind
• Microstory number 3
• Pablo Gervás and creative computers
• Rhymed poetry by Seamus Heaney
• A pyramidal theory of art.
• Big Brother is watching you
• Questions
• Dance and self-esteem
• Coplas, boleros, Frank Sinatra and other modern gods.
• In the soup
• Something is still stuck
• Feminism, Women's Studies, Gender Studies
• Edwin Morgan: Glasgow Sonnet 1
• Sauces (culture-shocking food series)
• Spring flowers
• Culture-shocking food 4: Scotland
• News: festivals
• Elegy to a fritatta
• More culture-shocking food: Spain.
• November snapshots (I know we're in May)
• New York food
• Leonard Cohen in New York
• The obligatory New York chronicle
• The Glory of Manhattan
• Culture-shocking food 1
• Theatres on both sides of the Atlantic
• Villains
• Queerness in commercial movies
• Is it possible to teach Creative Writing?
• Beer on vending machines
• On Libraries again
• Trees
• Anacreon
• Slope Day (tangarse clases a la americana)
• The Hansel and Gretel Effect (How Not to Write Part 9)
• On librarians
• Moon River
• Six months later (a microstory)
• On the horrors of "cosmetic" surgery
• The so-called crisis of the Spanish university system
• Spanish Statistics of the day
• Coffee or something
• Gabriel Celaya
• Inga Muscio's Cunt (an example of How Not To Write)
• The Pamphlet Effect (How not to Write part 8)
• The Sweet Seventeen Effect (How Not to Write, part 7)
• Book Day!!
• Bridges in Seville
• Changes in the Link section
• Erotic Literature
• Knitters
• This is what I mean when I say "good free verse"
• The Thereus Effect (How Not To Write Part 6)
• And the daffodils look lovely today
• Nacho Duato on talent and expression
• The Góngora Effect (How Not To Write 5)
• The Friday Cycle
• The Spanish Republic
• Queer Studies, Gender Studies
• Mary Dorcey and the problem of minority authors
• Heart on a Tray
• The Beatles Effect (How Not To Write, part 4)
• Mr Money (Poderoso Caballero es Don Dinero)
• Ai sh'teruu (ai shiteru?)
• The Poet with his face in his hands
• The Therapy Effect
• Cornell's literary life (once more)
• Men and Middle Eastern dance.
• Almost like a haiku
• The Almudena Grandes effect (How Not to Write 2)
• The T. S. Eliot effect (How Not To Write, 1)
• A tall man.
• On libraries both sides of the ocean, Part One
• Unavoidable: April is the cruellest month.
• A linguistic curiosity
• The Jewelry Shop is ready for spring colours.
• The North African dance conference
• Free verse on homesickness
• Belly Dancing! Yay!
• Forges
• Shipbuilding
• Damn you!
• White and black
• Barthes, e. e. cummings, a lover and a redhead
• Vietnam Women's Memorial
• e. e. cummings on love and death
• Terrorists
• Does love kill the Muse?
• The darkest what??
• Another haiku about hands
• The Canon as interpreted by the Library of Congress
• Banana Tree
• Back from Washington D.C.
• More fun!
• Some Irish fun
• The Creative Process is an Oedipal triangle.
• Shoes
• Alan Spence gets it right as usual
• Poetry and feelings
• Massage and boundaries
• There are three types of artists
• Come on, let's cut us all into pieces
• Sonnet on the sonnet
• Making friends
• The marriage of true minds
• My first haiku ever
• Soneto para amadas meteorológicas
• Weather with you
• African Cinema
• Why I write haikus.
• March Eleventh
• New Beginnings!