2020
- 12 Feb – Poem: Twelfth Day of February
[Short semi-elegy in mostly trochaic tetrameter] - 25 Jan – Limerick 17: Not Nonsense
[Shake-Speare’s connections to the limerick, in verse and prose]
2019
- 12 Aug – Limerick 16: A Sirius Question
[Heliacally rising in a northern sky near you] - 30/31 May – Limerick 15: The Revenge of Queen Tomyris
[My copy of Herodotus is auctioned – before and after]
2018
- 13 Sep – Lyrics: Brush Up Your Oxford
[‘Kiss Me, Kate’ and Cole Porter’s problematic lyrics, which I revise and repurpose] - 15 Jul – Verse: St Swithin’s Dud – based on the St Crispin’s Day speech in Henry V
[What could have been, had we conquered Croatia: a little touch of Harry in the afternoon] - 24 Jun – Limerick 14: Jeff’s Journey
[A limerical biography of a good friend] - 24 Jun – Limerick 13: Randolph Scott
[Tribute to an icon of the celluloid West] - 06 Jun – Lyrics: Willy and the Strats
[New lyrics for an Elton John tune] - 08 Feb – Sonnet 156: Prologue to Mary Stuart’s trial – based on the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet
[Redrawing the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, including a sonnet]
2017
- 18 May – Limerick 3: Back In Black & White
[A new poem of mine is published as part of an important centenary] - 20 Apr – Sonnet 60B: Thoughts at 467, better late than never
[I rewrote Sonnet 60 for my 467th birthday on the 12th] - 18 Mar – Verse: Smell the Gloves, Part 2
[Uncovering the origin of the Oxford Glove meme, with some pentameter at the end] - 04 Mar – Guest Poet Ben Jonson: To the Reader. Try Again.
[Jonson’s second attempt at his First Folio introduction]
2016
- 08 May – Limerick 12: limerical ode to LCFC
[A new poem about a football team, of all things] - 05 May – Limerick 11: tweet tweet
[A short poem, but not short enough] - 23 Apr – Limerick 8: editorial: 400 years of undeath
[An anti-commemorative poem for an over-commemorated day] - 02 Mar – Limerick 10: hamlet’s solimericquy
[Rewriting Hamlet’s soliloquy as a limerick] - 25 Feb – Limerick 9: all good writing comes from life
[A new poem expressing my agreement with Red Smith] - 21 Feb – Sonnet 155: new subject, less cryptic
[My first new sonnet in a very long time] - 14 Feb – Limerick 6: a love-ly wish for valentine’s day
[New poem for Valentine’s Day] - 11 Feb – Sonnet 73 and Limerick 5: once in a while I get serious, sort of
[Sonnet 73 as written, and rewritten as a limerick] - 10 Feb – Limerick 4: i’m a ricardian at heart
[A short limerick about Richard III] - 08 Feb – Limerick 2: sui generis my foot
[A new poem making a few points about talent] - 06 Feb – Limerick 1: because 154 sonnets are enough already
[A new poem about Henry VIII, my first real foray into limericks]
I haven’t been writing long enough, this posthumous time around, to get a new quarto of poetry into print. Until then, these links will take you to all my 21st-century versifying posted on this blog. So far it’s been limericks and more sonnets (numbered above my first batch of 154), but there’s some (iambic) pentameter for variety. Who knows, you could see haikus or kyrielles if my voices get frisky enough. One haiku already exists on the blog – I didn’t index it, you’ll have to find it for yourself.
The poems are numbered in order of composition, but listed by posting date. One or two are missing. Saving those for the quarto.
VERO NIHIL VERIUS