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Frances Garrood
About Me
I live with my husband in Devizes in Wiltshire where I spend my time writing, reading, riding (I am the lucky owner of a beautiful horse, Blue), and keeping up with my four children and an increasing number of small grandchildren (eight so far). I was for many years a nurse and a Relate counsellor. I have taught creative writing both at a local college and a prison, and I review a wide variety of items - including books - for the Amazon Vine programme.I write to death row prisoners in America, being a life-long opponent jof the death penalty. And I spend too much time blogging..
My Books
Below are the books I have written.
Ruth Robinson's Year of Miracles
Women Behaving Badly
Dead Ernest
Cassandra's Secret
Capture a feeling
ReplyDeleteUsing sensory language
Inspired by nature
I like them because you have to use few words to say as much as possible, so a good exercise to practice.
That was a good one
DeleteCompared with other haikus.
I still don't like them!
I don't like haiku
ReplyDeleteI'd rather dwell on content
Than count syllables
...and yet I do like the sonnet and the villanelle, both of which have a definite form also. Likes and dislikes defy explanation. De gustibus etc.
I'm referring to writing a haiku, not necessarily to reading one.
DeleteI like sonnets, too.
DeleteBut they're much harder to write.
Satisfying,though.
I find them frightening and glad that I don't have to face the All Blacks.
ReplyDeleteNice one Adrian.
DeleteA non-sequitur.
DeleteI might have expected it.
Stick to your photos?
Sorry I'm thick.
DeleteI read haiku and thought hakka
thought it a typo.
I can't do this. Should have kept quiet and not proved it.
Adrian you're nowhere near as simple/thick as you pretend. It was subtle and I, for one, thought it was brilliant and funny.
DeleteThis is a comment.
ReplyDeleteI make them very often.
Seldom in haiku.
Thank you for trying.
DeleteKnew I could rely on you!
Limericks next time...
I couldn't possibly contemplate a limerick Frances because
DeleteThe limerick’s an art form complex
Whose contents run chiefly to sex;
It’s famous for virgins
And masculine urgin’s
And vulgar erotic effects.
Brilliant! You see, you can do it, Graham. Next time, a sonnet?
DeleteFrances I wrote that in my 'Book' when I was a teenager but whether it is mine or someone else's I cannot be sure. I can find no attribution online.
DeleteAs a former English teacher, I must say that I scorned the haiku form. However:-
ReplyDeleteMs Frances Garood
Only becomes truly rude
After swigging gin
I quite agree with
DeleteYou, despite insulting rhyme.
YP, how could you?
A 14 year old British girl won a Haiku contest in Japan with this:
ReplyDeletefreshly mown grass
clinging to my shoes
my muddled thoughts.
She was flown to Tokyo and besides receiving a cash prize, will also have her words printed on thousands of bottles of green tea! (That is what the newspaper said.) Something tells me the trip to Japan and the money might be more exciting to the 14 year old.
Do you Haiku?
No, not me.
Nor should you. (My attempt at rhyme and advice at the same time.)
Yes. I read about that prize, Kay. But she doesn't do the prescribed form (5,7,5 syllables). I prefer yours!
DeleteLike reading haiku
ReplyDeleteGood ones I mean, of course
Not the kind I'd write
Glad you do, Patsy.
DeleteEach to his own, I suppose.
I still don't like them!
Can anyone write
ReplyDeleteA proper haiku without
Counting on fingers?
(I can't)
No. The problem is when I come to the second line I need to use my other hand.
DeleteI love reading them
ReplyDeletehave also tried writing some
with scenes of nature.
And, yes, I have to count on fingers!
I was counting on
DeleteMy fingers as I read your
Kind reply. Thank you!