Admin Post: The Poetry Page: On The Bummel with Mrs. Hudson

[scfrankles]

Welcome back, everyone, and thank you for accompanying me on another jaunt!

Now careful readers may remember that the last time you joined me I was locked in the broom cupboard with some of my fellow poets. Thankfully we have not been in there since May. Mr. Holmes and the doctor did indeed return from Birmingham and let us out.

However, after this experience, I decided to take a little time away from Baker Street and go on a lecture tour of the British Isles for a few months. My lecture being titled: ‘How to Run a House and keep it Clean in the face of dealing with a Man who likes to keep Chemicals and Criminal Relics in the Butter Dish’. Or more pithily: ‘A Consulting Detective, and Dishing the Dirt’.

I received a surprising amount of interest.

And now I have returned home, that interest has not faded! That is why I have invited you all here today to the offices of that well-known magazine The Girl's Own Paper. I am going to be asked a few questions about my life and work, and my answers will be shaped into an article!

While I speak to the editor Mr. Peters, perhaps you would like to look through past issues of the magazine and see if anything inspires you for your poetry. You can find the issues in this office here.


As added inspiration, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s story ‘The Six Napoleons,’ quoting that famous newspaper man, Mr. Horace Harker:



“It's an extraordinary thing,” said he, “that all my life I have been collecting other people's news, and now that a real piece of news has come my own way I am so confused and bothered that I can't put two words together. If I had come in here as a journalist I should have interviewed myself and had two columns in every evening paper. As it is I am giving away valuable copy by telling my story over and over to a string of different people, and I can make no use of it myself.”



And let me also list the usual suggestions for poetry forms:


221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, barzelletta, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cherita, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, clogyrnach, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, débat, décima, descort, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, enuig, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, hay(na)ku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, puente, quatern, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rimas dissolutas, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, tricube, trine, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle, xenolith


But for now I will bid you a temporary farewell. I am off to be interviewed!

Comments

Re: Dear Mama [POV Wiggins, Epistolary Poem inspired by Langston Hughes "Dear Mama"]

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! Yes, I like to think Holmes saw in Wiggins some of what Wiggins' own mother would have seen in him, intelligence, resourcefulness, leadership, etc. And, yes, the trust that Holmes puts in him buoys him more than in terms of the money which makes Wiggins' life easier.

The original is very poignant so I wanted that same feel to it.

So my last attempt at epistle poems will be Pope-ish, I hope.