A sequential run of six sonnets from Bad Idea is to appear on Stride on the 1,3,5,7,9,11 January 2020. They are all versions of Michael Drayton’s sonnets from his Idea. (In short, my ‘bad’ idea is Brexit.)
Please check here for the latest: https://stridemagazine.blogspot.com/
The first, ‘Bad Idea’ XXII: To Folly: State of the Union Address’ is (perhaps) a Christmas poem: ‘Theresa May wasn’t born yesterday, but re-born’, we are told.
It's here.
http://stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2020/01/from-bad-idea-overdubs-of-michael.html
But today on Stride there is a poem by Andrew Taylor and Charlie Baylis that I seem to have a sit down part in, commemorating my customary calendar. The irony is: I haven’t bought the 2020 one yet (and might break the habit of a decade and a half)! The room is still blue. See here:
http://stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2020/01/rouge-allure.html
Bad Idea is described fully (with links to other poems from the work) here:
https://robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2019/09/on-bad-idea-and-reference-to-earlier.html
Or you can look up the eight online poems from Bad Idea that may be accessed from this post:
https://robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2019/12/robert-sheppard-two-more-poems-from-bad.html
When all six have been posted I shall post a single post on Pages on 13th January to guide readers directly to them all.
