For years people have been asking me where the name for this website comes from, why the tree snake and so on. Here's the rationale:
Boomslang is indeed a rather deadly African snake that likes to hang out in trees - boom is the Dutch/Afrikaans for tree and slang for snake, but in English boom and slang seemed to me to be rather appropriate words for poetry, especially words read out loud and words played with. So there you have it, nothing too mysterious and the name does enable me to say something rather cheesy about poetry with a bite!
Here's an ancient preserved Boomslang from the museum in Swakopmund, Namibia for your delectation.
