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Nigel Humphreys
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- Aberystwyth, Wales
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- About Me:
- I am an award winning poet with two collections out, The Hawk's Mewl (2007) and The Flavour of Parallel (2010) published by Arbor Vitae Press, London. I have a little Welsh but I write in English. I am a member of the International Arts Group The Gruntlers who perform regularly at the Poetry Place in Covent Garden, London and The Word Distillery poets who perform their work twice a year at The Arts Centre, Aberystwyth. Please refer to my website for any other information. Apart from working on my third book I am currently transcribing many of Dafydd ap Gwylim's poems attempting to retain as much of the cywydd's strict metre as English will allow.
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- http://www.nigelhumphreyspoet.com
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- I live in the village of Dafydd ap Gwilym's birthplace
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The shortcomings of free verse
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 4:46am 7 Comments 1 Like
Writing poetry the modern way, the free verse way, the no-pain-no-gainless way is not difficult. Writing poetry which merits its reading is. Because English is largely spoken in a natural iambic meter (allowing for regional accents) one could in practice jot down one’s thoughts on any given subject, apply line breaks where speech would naturally pause and voilà, a poem is written. Put another way:
one could in practice
jot down one’s thoughts
on any given subject,
apply…
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It is that time of year again, so Penblwydd Hapus i chi! Happy Birthday to you! May your day be full of good friends and family, and good cheer.
Pob hwyl
Brian
PS Please feel free to swap out your flower-head icon (upper left picture on your page) with some photo of you or of any Welsh ancestors or your environs... something meaningful to you which expresses to others something of who you are. It is fun and will only take a minute. Diolch!
Pob hwyl
Brian
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