Louise Fazackerley
Profile updated: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 11:49:10 pm
Biography
Louise manages The Talent Factory- a community arts organisation based in Wigan that facilitates workshops and projects in a whole range of creative arts.
She runs 'The Secret Writers Club'- a writers group based in Wigan Town Centre, aimed at encouraging new writers and developing existing ones.
As a poet she is the North West representative for the Winning Words poetry project that sees her work displayed in the 2012 Olympic Park. She recently won the Superheroes of Slam Wigan heat. Louise has been booked to perform at diverse nights such as Wigan's Young Peoples Service Awards ceremony, Lancashire Young Peoples Service International Women's Celebration, Lowton Intergenerational Project and many a wedding. Her poetry is on display at Wigan Wallgate station.
As a facilitator she works with youth groups and in settings from pre-school through to college and with community grassroots writing groups. She has ten years experience working with young people in settings including residential units and EBD schools. Louise is currently working on two Youth Slam projects in the North West.
As a physical theatre practitioner she has been commissioned by Wigan Words Literature Festival to produce 'The Risktakers' a collaborative piece of contemporary dance and spoken word for young people. She has taken a play to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and danced in the Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games.
She is proper rubbish at Scrabble.
Samples
the commuters
bodies clot clot clotted together,
legs knotted,
faces blotched and blotted,
we commute
stood up, shut up
our pulses pulse, sweat glands seep
lego men and work wear barbies
office chic, we're office sheep
and I'm just a mouse on a wheel
strapped for cash
I've strapped on the blinkers
become a company thinker
stopped the drastic rewire
stopped dreaming big dreams
now I just tinker
I'm part of the team
tap tap tap
fingers do the walking
tap tap tap
headset mindset does the talking
this plastic self corrupts with stealth
commuter/computer, commuter/computer
we begin to hate the rain
tap tap tap
it pours on my window
out I rush to stand with the smokers,
on the fringes, face upward, gooseflesh,
I run and run and turn and fly,
my hair is wild, my cheeks are wet,
my steps are leaps, my cold hands wings
and these are a few of my favourite things!
colleagues! don't drag me inside!
don't make me sing your company song,
I'm not a commuter.
I don't belong.
stuck unsaid
I think I've bitten my tongue
too many times. You see,
I've stopped it dead
and left things stuck unsaid
so many stupid, tired times
that now it seems to be
coming away at the seams
and reams of words are flailing,
raving at the misplaced connection
where sentances trail off,
get mixed up, lost
in some severed space,
in a darkened, stagnant place
where conversations are directed
all wrong
and before i know what's going on
I'm sat mute in a taxi
the driver leaning in,
insatiable, spitting at me
words like smackhead,
asylum seeker, wife beater,
woman drivers, forged fivers.
I take a breath
to gather my thoughts
-I'll show him-
only it's like I'm wretching.
Nothing comes out.
I've eaten too many words
and in that glut of shameful silences
I've swallowed, swallowed
my stunted tongue.
daisychain summer
I loved him, I loved him,
I loved him, I loved
him not, at fourteen years old,
at fourteen years fraught,
half sherbert inside,
blown alive, blossomed
on school fields, street corners,
in parks, battered cars
I slapped roaming hands
and wore lacy bras
jailbait, really
sugarcoated
to his eighteen years
big, oh what big tawny eyes he had
to see in me- a woman,
a lover, a mother , a wife
his job seekers distraction
his council castle princess
we sat, talked, picked
petals and threaded those
fragile flowers
til the summer was gone
and sun-spell dandelions
turned white-haired and winter wise
old heads, young stems
predictable, I loved him not
his once upon a
next week deadbeat wannabe
make some money on a bit of weed
you smoked all the profits
this prince charming wasn't the one
I sighed about what a big girl I'd become
All poems are copyright of the originating author. Permission must be obtained before using or performing others' poems.
Blog entries by Louise Fazackerley
Not Odd Socks (20/08/2010)
The Secret Writers Club (01/05/2010)
His love for me is like the sea, As deep as it is wide (15/02/2009)
Potry Brew- Haiku (03/10/2008)
A Walk in the Park (05/08/2008)
New Arrival (05/08/2008)
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Comments
Just want to say, along with the previous posters posts, possibly, that these three are all lovely and greatly amusing. Hope to catch you live sometime.
Cheers
Here's a gush back, 'Stuck Unsaid' great language. Thanks for your comments on mine, now in yokelsound too.
Old birds rock! Love Daisy Chain summer... reminded me of when I was nought but a fledgling! Kate
Hi Louise,
Thought I'd let you know about our Liverpool poetry night - since you are planning to do something in the city soon.
The LIVER Bards, as the sessions are now called, take place on first Tuesday of each month in the performance space at the beautiful Shipping Forecast bar, Slater St, city centre, L1 4BW, starting 8pm.
It's a straightforward open-mic with poems of humorous, philosphical, political and spiritual content especially welcome.
The first of these new-style nights is tomorrow Tue 7 Sept, starting 8pm. The postal code for the Shipping Forecast is L1 4BW.
PS Am I right in thinking there is a read thru of the Wigan material this coming Thursday in Wigan. What time and where do I turn up? x
Steve
thanks for the comments on rowan tree, i liked it when i wrote it laid on my back in a wood :)
Thank you for your comment, Louise! I feel so bad that at launch party I didn't have time to speak with all that lovely people. ... well, I hope - next time. X
GaRy CoUTuRE
Sat 31st Jul 2010 00:05
innit
;)
Hi Louise, thanks a lot for your recent comment. Much appreciated! TB
Hi Louise,
Just read your profile poems (recommended by a friend as you don't seem to post much on the main blog.) "Daisychain Summer" is a wonderful piece of work, steeped in both vulnerability and a refreshing honesty about past mistakes. It made me feel sad for the sexually exploited, but happy in the knoiwledge that the years bring experience, and through that wisdom. It should be required reading for all fourteen year old girls.
Regards,
A.E.
Hiya, I'm based in Manchester, yes. Thank you for your lovely comment!
thankyou lovely louise for the comments on my poetry . glad you like them
oh just read the fraud thing , really i dont write much , or often , just sometimes and i have no idea what i am doing.. it just sometimes happens is all i can say
Louise, I was going to!Save me a place pretty please...I'll email you right now!
Cheers
x
Sarah
Fri 9th Apr 2010 16:42
Stuck Unsaid is a very powerful poem. Two great performances from you last night.
S.
Hello Louise, cheers for the comment, I worry about how I come across performance wise cos I think I just stand there and read, but I do enjoy it. I do appreciate seeing proper performers like you. I just feel horribly nervous and concentrate on locking my knees so they don't send me off the stage like a pneumatic drill. Glad you liked Dad :)
Thanks
Rachel
xxx
Hi Louise, 'letter to a genius' - just arsing about with words on that one really :-) Like to do that someimes makes a change from the usual stuff. Should be in Wiggin next week.
John
Hello Louise!
Would just like to thank you for all the support you've given as I take my first few steps into the poetry world!
I do love The Commuters and Stuck Unsaid, they're great to read and great to watch you perform!
See you soon! ;-)
Hi Louise, nice to see you and great performance in the slam, well done getting bronze! see ya soon Jeff X
Janet
Wed 3rd Jun 2009 13:44
Hi Louise, just want to say well done for your efforts in the Bolton slam, i really enjoyed your very worthy performance.
See you soon, Janet.x
Congrats on doing so well last night! Tell me more about this under 25 thingymabob you have plans. Wow you danced at the commonwealth games haha. Thats quite exciting xx
Hi Louise, great to see you (and Zoe) last night, loved your poems see you both soon Jeff X
Hi There
Enjoyed reading The Commuters here. Couldn't really concentrate on it at the slam the other night.
Great stuff
Winston
Fucking love The Commuters, so good! Nice staccato rhythm really getting to the heart of the horror of it all. Great economy with language too... good work.
Louise thanks for your comments on my Re-awoken. I wrote the thing in 5 minutes and then added the extra "I'm awake" about 3 days later when I read it out loud and it lacked something.
I love you "Stuck Unsaid". Did you read it at the slam in Wigan? You have the happy knack of getting power and feeling into the right number of words and saying stuff others of us would be happy to have said.
Nice work
Janet Ramsden
Fri 10th Oct 2008 14:40
Hi Louise,
just to let you know, i think you did a great job of compering with Jeff at Wigan last night.
I know i told you that already but thought it might be nice to show appreciation in your profile.
Love Janet.xx
Hi Louise, please see e-mail I've sent you about Freed-up, cheers Jeff X
Hi Louise, great to see you and have a chat. Thanx again for your comments about your work, really enjoyed your stuff tonight and your performance, well presented!
I will more than likely be at the Fredup event at the Green Room next week , but even if I'm not I will e-mail you the details about next months theme and number to ring etc.
Right hope to see you soon, cheers Jeff X
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Solomon Scribble
Thu 19th Jan 2012 16:24
Truly awesome. Can relate to 'the Commuters' so much! All the best :)