A Dead Good Blog

Poetry books are in abundance on my book shelves and bedside table. I love poetry. I love words, artistically shaped into meaningful phrases...

The story of Jane Eyre was my first introduction to the Bronte family.   Charlotte’s famous novel has been serialised on television many tim...

'Journey' Going from one place to another physically and or within the mind. Being taken to somewhere else, travelling in such a way...

If Lancashire Dead Good Poets' Society still ran writing workshops, I think that  Collage Poetry   would have made an excellent theme....

Collage The art of making a picture with various materials or objects… stuck onto a larger surface. Poetry A piece of writing in which the w...

As birthday celebrations go, the poor old DGB's has been a bit muted this week, even something of an anti-climax, with just one blog (th...

My babies were fed nursery rhymes with their mother’s milk.  As toddlers they loved picture books with repetitive poems and rhymes, and as t...

At last, the long awaited hint of spring sunshine is here. I don’t care that it shows up how much my windows need cleaning or draws a...

It had been a decade of uncertainty, feeling lost and out of my depth. I’d been riding an emotional roller-coaster that got faster and f...

The Pantoum - I don’t think I’ve encountered this poetry form before. I’ve played about with it during the last few days, but didn’t wri...

That’s Wimbledon over and a hope for two British champions in the same tournament is on hold. There’s something romantic about candlelight...

With thanks to Edmund Clerihew Bentley for this form of light-hearted poetry. I hope my efforts here raise a smile. They may not stick e...