New form acknowledged
George Simmers has accepted my four-sonnet sequence, "Expanding Notes", for Snakeskin with great enthusiasm:http://snakeskinpoetry.wordpress.com...ns-expansions/Thanks, folks, for helping me with...
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Fabulous. Kudos to you! It's a great idea, this aphoristic acrostic form. The interesting thing in the persuasion sonnet is how the 'story' gives us a crisis between two lovers. Not the first thing...
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Thanks, Mike! Thanks, Chelle!I will say that not everyone's as keen on these as George is. A bit too clever, some would say, as all that 'noise' tends to get in the way of the poem. I can see their...
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You do realize that when some say, they're (your poems) are a bit too clever, what they really mean is that they (the commentators) as confessing to be as dumb as dog poo? Am bloody serious btw. Well...
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Full disclosure: http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/Duncan
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JIn George Simmers' blogpost he acknowledges a new form. I don't know if it is. Presumably there have been previous examples of whole-word acrostics. Maybe not in sonnet form though. In the event that...
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This has now been given a shout-out by Patrick Gillespie as an example of good contemporary poetry in metre and rhyme: http://poemshape.wordpres...nt-poets-write-in-rhyme/ Duncan
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