Ian Badcoe Poetry

Fowler English usage The elliptical hyperhyphen: used in punctuation to show no relation between adjoining clauses; in speech indic...

Paul Brookes is a poet I know through the internet.  We used to hang out on Poetry Circle, an online forum... Before I begin this revi...

A mighty organ, earlier today... I go regularly to a poetry open mic now, it's a great evening and the only way to expose WIP poems...

When there's a murder in an old, old movie... Please try to keep sand off the body! The SOCO shouts for the seventeenth time. Ho...

I posted a preliminary version of this during NaPoWriMo back in April, but since then I've revised it a bit, and also I read it at Gor...

Alternative Forms of Government (an occasional series) Number 3 U.F.Ocracy The Air Force issues an official statement that governm...

Marrie Lightman suggested an irrational robot prompt , well this is irrational, and it has a robot in there somewhere... The day science...

The prompt here was a poem with overheard speech in it. Sonnet again.  It is my default setting when I do a form. Interestingly I have k...

When I put up my April 9th poem, I was only a few days late, and I was very pleased because I'd nearly caught up with the alleged one pe...

The challenge was to write a nine line poem and some examples of form were given.  I've never written a nocturna before, it's nine l...

A risky proposition, earlier today I went to a launch event for Deadly, Delicate by Kate Garrett, who I'd never met before but who...

This one was written from a prompt during NaPoWriMo this year, I forget what the prompt was, put possibly something quite distant from wha...

Uriah Heap who, had he known Mr Jethencorp, would not have presumed upon the acquaintance. Charles Dickens knew a thing or two! And ...

He Do the Police in Different Voices was T. S. Eliot's working title for The Wasteland.   Eliot was quoting Dickens: ...Sloppy is ...

Rampant commercialism, earlier today Apparently it is Black Friday, although it isn't of course because I live in England (where we ...

Funny isn't that easy to do in poetry, and sometimes isn't productive.  Amusing is easier to achieve, and I think less likely to g...