- ● 29 Dec – Limerick 21: Rhetorical Question, 1170
- A deathday poem for Thomas Becket
- ● 20 May – Sonnet 157: Not Household Words
- Chasing wild Oxwords for Sonnets Day
- ● 30 Mar – Limerick 20: All the Sonnets of Shake-Speare
- A hybrid limerick-sonnet metasonnet
- ● 24 Jun – Limerick 19: Fortune’s Dearest Spite Returns
- On my 417th deathday I explain my recent absence and its connection to Sonnet 37
- ● 16 Sep – Limerick 18: Ode for the De Vere Society
- Lauding the new DVS website, with a peek at my picture
- ● 13 Jul – Poem: Mommy, by Prince Hamlet
- (based on Daddy by Sylvia Plath)
- Accompanies the post Verse In Time To Come
- ● 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
- ● 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 Herodotus is auctioned – before and after, 30/31 May
- ● 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 Henry V’s St Crispin’s Day speech, again)
- 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 American West
- ● 06 Jun – Lyrics: Willy and the Strats
- New lyrics for an Elton John tune
- ● 08 Feb – Sonnet 156: in Trying to Remember Trying Mary is Trying
- Redrawing the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, with a poetic Prologue
- ● 18 May – Limerick 3: Back In Black & White
- My new poem is published as part of an important centenary
- ● 20 Apr – Sonnet 60B: Thoughts at 467
- I rewrote Sonnet 60 for my 467th birthday on the 12th
- ● 18 Mar – Verse: in Smell the Gloves, Part 2
- (based on the St Crispin’s Day speech in Henry V)
- 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
- ● 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 Solimeriquy
- 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 an important point about talent
- ● 06 Feb – Limerick 1: 154 Sonnets Are Enough Already
- A new poem about Henry VIII, my first real foray into limericks
Until the day arrives when I get another quarto into print, these links will take you to all the 21st-century poetry posted on this blog. So far it’s been limericks and a few new sonnets (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 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