Archive - Sixty Odd Poems

You Can Be Anything That You Want To Be

And other annoying motivational quotes

Jun 14 • Mike O’Brien

May 2026

What Are You Trying to Achieve With All This Poetry?

A meditation on the point of it all, and further news from the library.

May 31 • Mike O’Brien

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Poet

Libraries, solitude, and failure to engage.

May 17 • Mike O’Brien

Dickens in Doncaster

A renowned man of literature is welcomed to Doncaster.

May 3 • Mike O’Brien

April 2026

Beyond The Magical World of Melody

A Leeds Song Festival Epiphany

Apr 19 • Mike O’Brien

You Don't Look Like Your Poetry

Is it naïve to imagine that poets ever look like their creations?

Apr 5 • Mike O’Brien

March 2026

A Posthumous Publication

Eddie, I am sorry, I have left it too long!

Mar 22 • Mike O’Brien

The Joy of Social Media

Communication? Engagement? Distraction?

Mar 8 • Mike O’Brien

February 2026

The Economics of Poetry

The life of a poet/publisher.

Feb 22 • Mike O’Brien

An Odd Schedule

I really can't keep away - This is why I must...

Feb 8 • Mike O’Brien

January 2026

2.60 Robert Burns and Juvenile Filth

Cock up your beaver, and sup till you cack your stockins, it's Burns night!

Jan 25

2.59 Taunted by the Ghost of Plato

W.B. Yeats - Is achievement all its cracked up to be?

Jan 18