Poetry
- express - 70 Short Poems
I put this collection together in Feb 2013
and I reckon these are my best short poems
from the last 4 years
 70 Short Poems
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I've also uploaded my MA portfolio
which, I'm happy to say, is proving surprisingly
popular
The first half is the commentary / thesis part
which'll probably put off a lot of readers
but actually is not that dull. I've described
my writing journey during the 2 year course
and how I approached many of the concerns
that we all face when writing poetry.
If you scroll down to part two there are the 50
poems which I submitted. Personally, I believe
they're not a quick read but no one suggests they
have to be done in one sitting. [For the record, I'm
very happy to say I got a distinction for my efforts]
 MA Poetry Portfolio
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I had a big sort-through of work from 2002 onwards
to find poems that could be formatted nicely for
viewing on a mobile (cell) phone - (and I think
they look OK too on a laptop/desktop monitor
but I avoided the longer poems and especially
those with broad lines across the screen)
I thought it might be nice to be out and about
and be able to view a poem on your iPhone
or whatever.
I ended up writing two programs
- the first is a simple poem a day
with a different one every day of the year
poetry on the go - po go
 po go - a new poem every day
- and the second program picks one poem randomly
out of 375 - you can keep pressing 'another poem',
if you like, and get a different one each time
 get a random poem
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Youtube - hah! Well, I've videoed myself reading a poem
'As You Are, So It Is' and it's on Youtube
- it's my first attempt
 video poem, As You Are, So It Is
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pdf files seem to be going through a revival in popularity so I've grouped together here links to the ones I've got on my website
From 2008, a short collection called People-focussed Algorithms - it's pretty negative, not life-affirming or nice - and also I was experimenting with form & actually, I still quite like it
 People-focussed Algorithms - poetry
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Ashley's Backward Phonemes - snazzy title, eh? - and what might it be?
Well, I converted every word in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary into phonemes [sound units] and then sorted them so that each word that ended with the same sound was listed together - ie it's a kind of rhyming dictionary [from 2009]
 Ashley's Backward Phonemes
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3 - hah! well, I live in hope - this pdf is 3 poems, titled '3 poems', which are my most favourite that I've ever written, but, fret not, I seriously believe I'm the only person in the whole universe that likes them. It's one of the reasons why I started going to writing classes [to find out why only me liked my writing] and I sort of went full circle - anyway, here's the link
 3 poems - Ashley Bovan
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on the other hand, also from Feb 2013, is '- express- 70 Short Poems' which, I'm happy to say, is proving quite popular [this is the pdf version]
70 Short Poems
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and finally, I've grouped together some links
to poetry I've had published in online magazines / journals
 published online
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(30 March 2013)
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