Introduction

Hi,

I'm Ellie, as you might know if you read my other blog, which is mostly about cake.

I have a confession to make. So I'm going to take a deep breath, stand up like I'm at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and say: "My name is Ellie and I write poetry".

Quite frequently, it's bad poetry. But occasionally I feel like I write something that seems sort of OK and so I'm starting this blog as a platform for me to share my poetry.

Be gentle people, I haven't really shared any of my poetry since I was 17 and had two poems published in an anthology by Kingston University in association with the bookshop Borders.

It was shortly before Borders went bust, actually. I've always felt slightly guilty about that.

The reason this blog is called "An Imitation of Poetry" is because T.S. Eliot said: "Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal".

I'm a big fan of T.S. Eliot actually, I have the last three lines of his "Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" tattooed on my inner arm, so don't be surprised if you see me imitating him.

Finally, just a word of caution, I write in freeverse. Don't expect sonnets. I never could get the hang of iambic pentameter.

Until the next time.