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Scottish author Jim Murdoch discusses writing, his own and other authors, and muses at length about his fascination with the perversity of language. Veering from the nostalgic to the acerbic his blog will amuse anyone with a love of language.

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  • Less is more or less (part two)

    Posted on Wednesday March 26th, 2008 at 20:37 in haiku, micro poetry

    (If you've missed it, here's Part One)One-line haikuSince the 1960s, some poets in the English-language haiku community have experimented with so-called "one-line haiku". The first such one-liner to receive serious recognition was Michael Segers's pi...

  • Less is more or less (part one)

    Posted on Monday March 24th, 2008 at 07:30 in haiku, poety, mathemaku, micro poetry

    “Less is possible.” Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture  In Japan reductionism and miniaturisation have long been the social norm and it is a challenge to cram a lot into a tiny space. I remember when I had my ZX...