UK blogger Martyn Crucefix discusses his experiments with AI poem creation in his blog post ‘Can AI Write an Original ‘Poem’ By ‘Me’?’ On a personal note, I too (like Martyn) have been fiddling around with AI of late, seeking to create a small picture book as a family gift. It’s set in Spain in…
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Andrew Blackman – No, RSS isn’t dead!
(from Andrew Blackman’s blog, 7th May 2025) ‘When I mention RSS these days, I often get either a complete lack of recognition or a kind of amused astonishment, as if I’ve just suggested sending them a fax. It’s true that big tech companies, notably Google, have killed many of the RSS readers and other technology…
Vanessa Proctor ~ ‘On Wonder’, a review
A positive review on Gregory Piko’s blog of Vanessa Proctor’s recent collection…. Vanessa’s words know exactly how to fit together and how much to say. Nothing is forced, nothing is rushed. The timing of the words is comfortable. The sound of the words is pleasing. These poems are a delight to read. More at Gregory…
Louise Akers | 12 to 20 questions (from rob mclennan’s blog)
(from ‘rob mclennan’s blog’, 17 April 2025) 5 – Are public readings part of or counter to your creative process? Are you the sort of writer who enjoys doing readings? I love doing readings–because they are fun and social and ephemeral experiences, but also it is a hell of a way to edit a poem….
Dulcetly (Kristy Bowen): Adventures in self-publishing
(from a post on Kristy Bowen’s blog Dulcetly | notes on a bookish life – 03 March 2025)) I was moving some books around on my shelf and realized I have now published just as many books via self-publishing as I did traditional publishing…. After 2020, I felt a shift in my relationship toward po-biz…
‘See Me’ (referencing Martin Edmond’s blog ‘Isinglass’)
An extract from a post by Martin Edmond who continues to blog of exquisite abstractions: …. Dylan goes on to sing: ‘Everybody that I talked to had seen us there / Said they didn’t know who I was talking about’ which is kind of apposite to my own attempts to re-visit the past, which tend…