Kennings – the metaphor of Skalds

March 20, 2014

Welcome poets, today I thought we should learn about kennings. A kenning is a very brief metaphoric phrase or compound …

Let’s be fabulists today

February 22, 2014

Hello everyone and happy Saturday. Today I want us to consider fables. I think we have all read fables as …

January 18, 2014

Reading through the poems of d’Verse I reflected how many poems that use trees as metaphors or simply describing the …

November 26, 2013

I bid you welcome, poets to the bar today it’s Tuesday. Björn will serve your ale November winds a’howling, bringing …

November 16, 2013

Hello, this is Björn, filling in doing Poetics for the first time, and today I would like us to be …