Category: Other People's Poetry

I seem to be bet­ter at telling sto­ries than any­thing else in my poet­ry, every­thing else seems a bit too forced, where­as telling sto­ries comes a nat­u­ral­ly. I don’t real­ly have the incli­na­tion to write long things like nov­els or even short sto­ries, so instead I am going to work with what many pompous peo­ple refer to as ‘dog­ger­el.’

Since mod­ern poet­ry is not real­ly appre­ci­at­ed by Soci­ety At Large, I want to write things that are eas­i­ly acces­si­ble by those folk. In order to accom­plish this I have decid­ed to start with so-called ‘chil­dren’s lit­er­a­ture.’ More pre­cise­ly fables, or frac­tured fables in my case. I sort of have Roald Dahl’s Revolt­ing Rhymes in mind, but I want to make up my own sto­ries instead of retelling fairy tales.

Thus, I have come up with the Cas­tle-town Idea.
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