wild camomile - haiku by Owen Bullock. Fans of haiku will appreciate this collection of 81 haiku from a poet who has insight and skill ... more

On Style and Learning thoughts from Janet Keen on being original.

The Human Conversation - thoughts on being a creative being from Marcel Currin
I am sitting at the piano, chatting with Beethoven. We are talking across 200 years of history. I am engaging with Beethoven's ideas, trying to follow his line of thought in the sonata I'm learning. He keep surprising me. Sometimes I think I could do better ... more

Bravado 17 bounces on to the writing scene
Co-ordinating editor Jenny Argante reports... "Once again the courier wakes me by bouncing boxes onto my front deck. As soon as his van drives off, I tiptoe out in my nightie with knife in hand to rip open the top carton and pull out a copy of Bravado 17... read more

2009 Bravado poetry competition -Judge, Sue Wootton: judge's report & results

Charles Whipple broods on the evidence of life.
Oh God the road is so long so very long. Ann Lamott says, You are in print; therefore you exist. Nothing I have written from my imagination is in print. I must not exist. Perhaps I am just a bad dream. If so read more

Bravado 16 has reached sweet sixteen...
… though not without a few teenage tantrums and traumas along the way, accepted as a normal part of the creative process. read more

Rediscover the magical power of poetry by Jenny Argante
The problem with poetry is that people take it too seriously or not seriously enough. Nor do people give poets their due (writing a good poem is darned hard work) mainly because poets don’t earn much actual money from poetry; or only indirectly. Historically, some poets have achieved the status of gods or pop idols, but for most poetry is an anagram of poverty with no V for victory.

Except the joy of sharing. As the inimitable Ogden Nash said: read more