Rik's homely little poetry workshack
 

Welcome to my work-in-progress page. The purpose of this page is to air my latest poems - the ones on which I am currently working. If you have any comments or criticisms of these poems, then please feel free to e-mail them to me. Enjoy your stay in the workshack - and if you find my cliché chisel, please hang it back on the wall.

Olympus

One of my ongoing projects is to write some poems about the forthcoming Olympic Games, to be held in London in 2012. Why? Well, I live less than a mile away from where the stadium is being built - which in my view gives me a perfect right to consider myself a very unofficial poet-not-quite-in-residence-but-just-on-the-borders-if-you-know-what-I-mean for the whole shebang. I'm sure there will be officially appointed poets along in due course, but until someone sues me here's the poems that are competing for the glory of appearing in my forthcoming chapbook (due sometime in 2012, provisionally titled Olympus, because the organising committee seem to be a bit on the sharp side when it comes to trademarks and stuff):

Other stuff

True to my multitasking prowess, I'm capable of working on more than one project at a time. Poems get written for many different reasons, but one of my main driving forces seems to be the annual NaPo (National Poetry Writing Month) that infests the internet every April. It does take some time to weed and reshape those hasty drafts into something more palatable: you have been warned!

Copyright notice

Please be aware that all the poems on The Rikverse Website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License, unless otherwise stated. In essence, this means that you are allowed to copy, distribute, display, and perform these poems; however you must give the original author (that's me, Rik Roots) credit, you may not use this work for commercial purposes, and you may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.