Language and names have always fascinated me. Go on, try a couple…they might not be as dry as you fear…
Poems about Grammar:
Aardvaarks
Apoplexigraphy
…because “s/he” is unpronounceable
Book-Nosed Lukas
Capital Notion
Catphrases
Cattle Prattle
Cold Æsh
Diacritique
Drop the Tittles
Each Word is a Species
Fewer & Less
The First Emoji
For ‘Whom’, the Bell Tolls
Future Habitual
Ghoti
Glottal Stop
(G)nus
Grammar Schooling
Grammers & Spammers
Hogwash
Homonym
How Now, Tao Dao ?
Hybrid Vigour
In the Nash’nal Int’rest
Deers
Jealousy & Envy
Just an Expërrement
Just-So Grammar
The Lack of the Circumfrex in the British Îles
Latin Plurals
Loopiter
Mockingbirds
Momma Tongue
Mongeese
Oversexed
Pissing on the Pedants
Propersome Grammar
Punctilagogaloquociatude
A Qroq of Qraiq
Second-Hand Words
Shelf-Life
Shipshape
Stoking the Peeves
Stowaways
The STRUT-SCHWA merger
The TRAP-BATH split
Toxic
An Unnecessaryness of Collective Nouns
Unparalleled Revival
Was, Not-Was
West Country R.P.
What ? Dang !
Whenceforth
Who’da Thunk It ?
Poems about Language in General:
Adderbolts
The Bard & I
Belgian Lessons
Berlingo
The Curse of the Couplets
Epeira
Flimsy were the Borogroves
Flinders
Frontispiece
Hazy Words
Headbanger
A Masculine Rhyme
I Believe in ‘Yesterday’
In Reply to the Handwriting Appreciation Society
Insults are Written by the Winners
Journeyman
Lingua Inglese
Linguistic Schtick
Lousy with Names
Maximum Maxims
Mic Check
Mongers
Monotongue
Neater by the Dozen
Omniphonics
One-and-a-Half
Ping-Pong
A pyrrhic gift (3)
RAS Syndrome
Shipshape
Sonic Screwdriver
Trees in Threes
Two Sheets to the Wind
War of Words
Poems about other Languages:
Aardvaarks
Across the Multi-Verse
Appellation Celebration
Belgian Lessons
Berlingo
The Boston Stomp
Englischer Waltzer
Eurovision Song
Farewell, Athelstan
Flinders
Habemus Poppycock
Handle for a Han Girl
Hierogryphs
Hogwash
How Now, Tao Dao ?
In Kate’able Hands
In the Name of the Lord
The Lack of the Circumfrex in the British Îles
Insults are Written by the Winners
It’s all Greek to me
Lingua Inglese
Monotongue
Nomen-Couture
Omniphonics
Oversexed
Rock Pocks
Russian Rush
Scharfes Ess
Second-Hand Words
Sonic Screwdriver
These are the Beasts upon the Earth
Transatlantic Cable 2 – Emigrants’ Song
Unter den Linden
Verses in Hades
Poems about Names:
All Life Is Here
Always Known As
Appellation Celebration
Beyond Uranus
Bigger Than Jesus
Boötes
The Boston Stomp
Dog Tags
Don’t be a Steve
Dropping Aitches
Eye-Ee-Shah
Farewell, Athelstan
Final Calling
Font-Fodder
Gods’ Breath
Good Name, Bad Name
Handle for a Han Girl
Hannah Without the Haitches
In Kateable Hands
In the Name of the Lord
It’s all Greek to Me
Jellyfishes
Just Another Joe
Kae-Tlihn
The Land of the Saints
Little Germany
Manifest Destiny
The Marks of our Being
Miss-World
The Moniker Mutations
Monikers
Mr & Ms
The Name Not Taken
The Name of the Wind
Naming the Serpents
Next-Jen
No-Nonsense Names
No Sinjun
Nom de Guerre
Nom d’Usage
Nomen-Couture
Nominative Determinism
A Nonny Mouse
Normanisation
Personal Names
Proctotryp
Rock Pocks
A Rose by Any Other Name but This
Smiths & Jonses
Sons of Milka
Sorry, Elizabeth
A Surge of Surnames Serving as Starters
Tartan Tarts
Tilly in Potentia
Twins I Have Known
A Unnecessaryness of Collective Nouns
Vanity
White Enchantress
Poems about Places:
The A300 Relief Road
All Chalk, No Cheese
Black Fives
The Boston Stomp
Brook Street Jam
Cattle Prattle
The Cester Slur
Christmas in the Desert
Dressed in the Raiments of Emperors
End of the Line
Et In Orcadia, Ego
The Frost Fairs
Gillingas
Gods’ Breath
The Groaning Trencher
Hannah Without the Haitches
Hotspots & Coldsores
It’s All Good Stuff
The Land of the Saints
London Pebble
Mercator’s Projection (A Requiem)
Musings on the Nature of Hadrian’s Wall
The Name of the Wind
Naymington-on-Poynte
Nonsense Avenue
Raised Eyebrows, Wobbly Club
RKO
Shires Old & New
Sluff
Snowfall in London
Sorry, Elizabeth
Talk Like a Pirate
Ultima Thule
Undone Town
Unter den Linden
Poems about Poetry:
A.I. Housman
Across the Multi-Verse
Alphabet Soup
Archipelago
Calling All Stations
Circle Lines
The Click
Convergent Resonance
The Curse of the Couplets
Deep & Meaningless
Dry Rot
Epistophile
Epitaph
Et Ego in Ego
Eyebrow Stroking
Faffage in Five Acts
Fill Me
First Eight Lines of a Sonnet
The First Emoji
Footnote
Foreword & Forewarned
Fractured Metre
Gate-Keepers & Fate-Reapers
Graduation Poem
Hashtag You’re It
Heroic Verse
How to Recite Right
I’m a Poet, Not an Actor
In Reply to the Handwriting Appreciation Society
Index of First Lines
Ivory Garrets
Languid Curlicues
The Last Poem I’ll Ever Write
The Last of the Bards
Lost Quotations
Lurkers
Metres by the Foot
Middle-Class Decline
My Mind, She Runs
narrative conflict
Nashtiche
Necessary Narcissism
Night Shift
No Biography
Oh, this again…
The Old Poet to the Young
Oriental Droppings
Overwrought & Undercooked
Part-Time Poet
“Poems don’t have to Rhyme”
Poesy Posers
The Poet’s Almagnac
Poet’s Corny
Poetic Truth
Poetry Briefing
The Poetry Competition of my Dreams
Poetry No Thanks
Proem to a Poem
Scanning the Last Word of Lines
Set My Verses Free !
Sex & Death
The Shape of the Pear
Soap Bubbles
Some Things Are Beyond Rhyming
The Spoils of Verse
State of the Art
Submissions Policy
Tell Me Four Times
Terminator Traitor
Thank You For Your Submission
Those Two Impostors
Through a Dark Glassly
Throw your Hands in the Air till it Cuts like a Knife
Transient Verses
Tuneless
Uncoupled
Unfinished
(untitled)
Unvolted
Vanity by Numbers
The Verse That Goes Like This
Verses in Hades
Versificator Regis
The Voice Speaks
Writers’ Block, Writers’ Block
Writing by Heart
You Know What I Mean ?
Z for Zen
Poems about Grammar:
Poems about Language in General:
Poems about other Languages:
Poems about Names:
Next-Jen
Poems about Places:
Poems about Poetry:
Rhyming Couplets 