I keep coming back to the more otherworldy words I write. Telling a ghost story can be as simple as telling a very ordinary story where something goes dreadfully wrong, and it’s hard to understand such an unusual turn of events. A hand found behind the curtain, a finger dropping off when a knuckle is…
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Staying Alive
It only seems fair that as well as my own writing I share those words I find inspirational too, right? 🙂 I was given a book of contemporary poetry for Christmas (thank you Mr.H) which is turning out to be insightful in so many ways. In combining thematic poetry of the last century, Bloodaxe Publishing…
What Connects
I love writing which sounds like an outburst. I suppose that’s quite a simplistic statement but it’s true nonetheless. A flash of automatic writing and a story combined. One of my more rhythmic bursting poems has been published on the I am not a Silent Poet blog. Occasionally I do have a bit of an…
Midwinter Special 2015 – Part One
Originally posted on Three Drops from a Cauldron:
Part One of our Midwinter Special 2015 e-issue is now live! http://issuu.com/threedropsfromacauldron/docs/three_drops_from_a_cauldron_midwint?e=17943932/31657368 Featuring poetry and flash fiction by: Dennis Trujillo, Sarah Ann Winn, Rebecca Gethin, RMJ Graham, Monica Shah, Caroline Hardaker, Helen May Williams, Carole Bromley, Nate Maxson, Danielle Matthews, Mary Franklin, Kim Malinowski, Erin Lale, Rhiannon…
The Thing on Your Shoulder
You Are The Thing on Your Shoulder: Which would you be, if you couldn’t quite see the way ahead, whether you were living or in fact, dead? Do you sing like a bard or drive your purpose hard through the darkling night? Do you like the light? © Caroline Hardaker 2015 …
Journal#1: Words! Pictures! Sounds!
This is most definitely a bit of an experiment. A place to gather together words and pictures and ideas and all that jazz. Not just my jazz – but other people’s jazz too, if it’s snazzy enough (snazzy is even more jazzy than jazz). We all use words everyday, we say them without thinking most…
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