“This Is Just To Be Meta” and Other Poetry News

An odd little poem of mine went up at The Pygmy Giant today, the first of a batch of three that was recently accepted there. “This Is Just To Be Meta” is, I guess, a parody of the idea of parodying a particular famous poem, “This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams. There are, I suppose, three possible responses to this:

  1. Huh?
  2. Hey, a meta-parody! Neat!
  3. Someone is trying to be too clever for their own good, aren’t they?

Take your pick. I’m probably going with 3, to be honest.

The other two poems, “Dali’s Moustache” and “Dissonant Love Song #2”, will appear some time in 2013, and I’ll let you know when.

In other poetry news, I think I can now reveal that my poem “Bloody Italians” was Highly Commended in the inaugural Fire River Poets competition. I was particularly pleased about this because they’re based not a million miles away, in Taunton, and I’ve already been to a couple of their open mic nights. I’ve been asked, along with all the other shortlistees and prizewinners, to read my poem at a special event on May 2nd, so that should be fun.

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