Big Sal
Sat 12th Jan 2019 02:08
Very powerful take on 'reincarnation' or simply the idea of 'rebirth' itself. A veritable defender of such a title. Well done on this.?
Comment is about kill me. (blog)
Original item by marzipan666
Big Sal
Sat 12th Jan 2019 02:06
As always, you reading is appreciated immensely.
(Nice sweater by the way.)
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Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)
Original item by Martin Elder
Po I turn on the light every night. and Thank you all.
Comment is about Words of The Waiting Man 26 (blog)
Original item by Mikey V Kinsey
A truly beautiful poem with a great rhythm and a marvellous passion about it like so many of your poems.
Nice one Tommy
Comment is about Come and see (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
There is some really inciteful lines here Keith as well as a good degree of wisdom
Nice one
Comment is about Wisdom (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
There can sometimes be a very fine dividing line in relationships which I can never fully understand. You seemed to have captured this well here Robert
Nice one
Comment is about Situational Insanity (blog)
Original item by Robert C Gaulke
Those last three lines are particularly good and round the poem off very nicely.
Comment is about Words of The Waiting Man 26 (blog)
Original item by Mikey V Kinsey
Is every dog a reliable critic? If so maybe I ought to get one. Animals can be quite discerning creatures.
Comment is about The Critic (blog)
Original item by d.knape
I don't where this is Alan, but Keith is absolutely right with this. It certainly makes me want to be there where ever it is.
Nice one
Comment is about When I am Rich (blog)
Original item by Alan Travis Braddock
What memories this poem evokes. I had at least two friends who had a C.V. I remember they had amazing suspension. Legend has this was to allow French farmers to be able to transport chicken eggs across bumpy fields and tracks with breaking them.
Marvellous poem David
Comment is about The 2 CV (blog)
Original item by David Cooke
An absolutely beautiful poem John. The words flow wonderfully in both rhythm and pace. I also love your reference point of Iron and wine. I am also fan of his music.
Nice one
Comment is about Synaesthesia (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank you Keith. We went there for 3 years in succession but I'll never be able to live there. So really this is just a dream. Oh well , can't win them all.....
Comment is about When I am Rich (blog)
Original item by Alan Travis Braddock
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Fri 11th Jan 2019 22:50
The cockney feel reminds me a bit of 'If it wasn't for the 'ouses inbetween'
Comment is about SPARROWS CAN'T SING (blog)
Original item by ray pool
I suspect that there is more than element of truth in this poem and very nicely read Ray. It's good to still hear any sort of local colloquialisms that have not become metropolised. ( Not sure that it is a word) But I am using it anyway. Although said words and phrases themselves would not doubt have been seen as bastardisations of the mother tongue.
Love it Ray
Comment is about SPARROWS CAN'T SING (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Childlike yet profound in its evocation of how we each move ahead
- following the path laid before us in life.
Comment is about 'I pawed away from the trunk, fumbled, and took my first step toward not returning' (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Indeed. Let no man cast a shadow where there ought to be light -
unless that shadow offers shade from heat that burns too bright.
Comment is about Come and see (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
I like "the stem of grass in the teeth" ruminating feel of these lines.
Maybe you should really worry if your dog moves close and cocks its leg!
Comment is about The Critic (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Keith, I too have a memory of that ! It went during the fifties. Thanks for your reading.
Hi Brian, my wife still talks of a hottle bottle, but now I know where it comes from. I would never have known that character, so thanks!
Thank you Taylor. I read this out on Monday at an open mike, and a lady asked me to forward it to her, so really chuffed.
Po, Quite right and thanks for that.
Good of you to drop by, Jon and Anya!
Ray
Comment is about NANNY'S HOT WATER BOTTLE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Just to say thanks for your likes, Anya, Don and Po.
Ray
Comment is about SELL EBRITY (blog)
Original item by ray pool
I don't have no luck with no women
They all pass on by when I ode
Perhaps I should take your advice dk
And get a dog I can offload ?
Comment is about The Critic (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Big Sal
Fri 11th Jan 2019 20:02
Oh there's plenty wrong with me, but nothing that can't be solved with the companionship of a good piece of poetry.
The yin/yang of this makes it one of your best. A metaphysical walk through the park, if you will.
Comment is about The Critic (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Big Sal
Fri 11th Jan 2019 20:00
Nice title, and I love the last line, Lisa.?
Comment is about Devils domain (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
A poem which takes the reader along with the poet every step of the way on such an idyllic description of a much loved place.
Thank you for this.
Keith
Comment is about When I am Rich (blog)
Original item by Alan Travis Braddock
Fri 11th Jan 2019 17:22
damn. 1932?
you look good for 87.
i wish i looked as debonair as you.
what has this got to do with poetry?
nothin'.
but it's the best I could do.
wink.
Comment is about Alan Travis Braddock (poet profile)
Original item by Alan Travis Braddock
No News is Good News
That is the theme
to find out if true
bring a poem or two
start off by pressing the bell
side door entrance only
answer it's only me
if told a password change
it will be for the new year
if told mad as a hatter
and the door opens enter!
Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Poignant words, Tom, tenderly expressed.. Sorrow can bring out the best of poetry in the gifted - unfortunately. I expect that this is no consolation - but it may help at the time.
Comment is about December 24th Notebook Pieces (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
Big Sal
Fri 11th Jan 2019 13:20
Great last line.?
Comment is about Words of The Waiting Man 26 (blog)
Original item by Mikey V Kinsey
Big Sal
Fri 11th Jan 2019 13:19
Don't feel bad, I started going bald when I turned 18-19. Bad genes or good cheese?
The world may never know.?
Comment is about Going Bald (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Big Sal
Fri 11th Jan 2019 12:53
Thank you for the support.
Reading poetry can bring together enemies - if they'd only read it right.
Your contributions are nothing less than completely meaningful and heartfelt in substance.?
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
Big Sal
Fri 11th Jan 2019 12:50
Appreciate you reading, commenting, and generally just being here and being you.
So, thanks. Much.?
Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)
Original item by Mae Foreman
My poetry seems to be getting worse each day ?
Comment is about We're in for a Stinker (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Been There, done that. Curious thing is that although the old thatch shrinks or vanishes, the grass around the door grows like mad!
Comment is about Going Bald (blog)
Original item by d.knape
You got problems
Dk for sure
Must be desparate
For a cure
It's called my friend
'drop-offing' by all
What's going next?
What's gonna fall?
Am 'fraid dk
Your at the gate
Of what they call
Disintegrate ?
Comment is about Going Bald (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thu 10th Jan 2019 18:05
Pitch to Publishers & Festival Organisers:
Chrys is renowned for writing and performing sequences of poems that also lend themselves to interpretation in other art-forms e.g. music and film that are then incorporated into her live performances. There are currently three such 'sets' in the repertoire, each of which can be adapted to suit Festival timeslots – with or without a Q and A. As an option extra Chrys offers a ‘Make Your Writing Speak’ workshop to help develop performance skills.
Home Front / Front Line is a set based on the Roncodora pamphlet (see above) that incorporates two film-poems produced by film-maker Kenneth Smyth with music composed and directed by Katherine Gillham. This is a moving personal story of the pacifist Mum of a territorial soldier in the second Iraq War. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0F10Smx4Fg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_bS2EihEM8
Weaver of Grass: A Hebridean Tale is a set about the iconic Hebridean grass-weaver who died in the late 1990's and is now recognised as an important 'outsider artist'. The tale has inspired numbers of art-works and Chrys' poems are now being woven into a new performance piece featuring Chrys and one of Scotland best-known harp players, Wendy Stewart. The work is offered with or without the harp settings and is followed by Ötzi The Iceman, a sequence about another grass-weaver: The Iceman uncovered in the Alps after being in deep freeze for 5000 years.
The Punkawallah's Rope
How does a white middle-class woman from the ex-Colonial power make sense of modern-day India? This sequence of poems is based on a month in the North-East of India following a reading at the Kolkata Book Festival. Like India, the sequence is colourful, moving and challenging. It can be offered as a voice alone, but also with a landscape of music and sounds created by London-based musician Ajay Srivastav.
Make Your Writing Speak
Many good writers feel that the quality of their work is lost because they don't have adequate performance skills. This two-hour workshop is offered by Chrys as an adjunct to readings and will help writers improve their skills and confidence in public readings. It draws on Chrys training as an actor and her long experience of (i) providing skill-development workshops for actors and (ii) presenting her own writing in public.
Contact email: chrys@chryssalt.com
Contact telephone
07891 803027
Awards & Prizes:
National Media Award (CRS)
New Writing Bursary (English Arts Council)
Work Development Award (Creative Scotland)
Fringe First (Edinburgh Festival).
Arts and Business Award 2012
The Burning was selected one of the Best Scottish Poems 2012.
Weaver of Grass shortlisted for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Prize 2014
Research Bursary 2017 ( Open Lottery Funding)
Innovate Create Cultivate Award 2018
MBE for Services to The Arts 2014
Literary Festival Appearances include:
The Cheltenham Literary Festival, World Unite Festival (Leeds), Cheltenham Poetry Festival, The Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival, The Tampere Poetry Festival, (Finland), Aye Write, The Wigtown Book Festival, The Edinburgh International Festival, Queens Park Book Festival, Islay Book Festival, The Festival of Firsts, The Wirral Poetry Festival, The Southside Festival, (Glasgow), The Aberfeldy Festival, Bath Literature Festival, The Kolkata Book Festival, StAnza International Festival, St Clémentin Bilingual Festival, (France).
Comment is about Chrys Salt (poet profile)
Original item by Chrys Salt
French films have often intrigued me, with their idiosyncratic way
of seeing and depicting things - so different in many ways from our
own on the other side of the Channel. The thought processes and
their results no doubt find their equivalent in other countries.
It seems likely that interpretation is of as much importance as
translation - one essentially at the service of the other. Even
Fitzgerald's famous translation of a well known poem is apparently
challenged now for its accuracy. I wonder if the ancients would be remonstrating about how their work has been presented to the
world in print. In short, translation - especially of poetry - is fraught
with attendant risk directly related to interpretation and there is
much to be said for staying with one's own language when writing
if one is not to be misunderstood (misinterpreted?).
Comment is about 'Undiscovered gem of a poet' Alicia Fernandez to guest at Sale Write Out Loud tonight (article)
Original item by Julian Jordon
Happy New Year Tommy! Re my advice to male poets, i can't remember what that was now...I'm sure I've given plenty over the years and some if it twaddle.
My viewpoint for the here and now would be.
Let's stop judging some actions of the 1970s 1980s by the standards of today. It doesnt make sense to castigte people for things that were acceptable back then - the exception to that being paedophilia, which is vile in any century.
Groping people is wrong whatever the gender or sexual orientation but to rake something like that up 20 years later with no substantial evidence of harm done. Some people need to get a grip on themselves!
Possibly a bigger response than you wanted but ive always loved the way WOL gives you the opportunity to express yourself and let off a bit of steam.
? x
Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
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Comment is about Sean Kavanagh (poet profile)
Original item by Sean Kavanagh
What a tremendous read.. Truthful yet sad.. Wise and needed. Bravo ?
Comment is about ALONE TIME (blog)
Original item by Ty
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Thu 10th Jan 2019 16:47
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Comment is about ALONE TIME (blog)
Original item by Ty
I found something plausible in Trump's words about walls being for the protection/safety of those within, not for the convenience or
advantage of those beyond them, not least those trying to obtain
entry illegally from countries of their own.
Here in the UK we see evidence of the downside of that sort of thing via crime
from those with social and religious origins and values far removed from our own. Our own wall was once the English Channel -
cited by Shakespeare as acting as a moat,
a DEFENCE AGAINST "LESS HAPPIER LANDS". Plus ca change - or something!
Comment is about Just Another Terrible Day In The Government Shutdown (blog)
Original item by Mikey V Kinsey
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Thu 10th Jan 2019 16:44
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Comment is about Cesca (poet profile)
Original item by Cesca
Brian looking for his brother?
Could it be there's another
With similar robust humour
Or is that just a rumour?
But it's logical - truth to tell
To search via "double you" - oh 'ell !! ?
Comment is about Has Anyone Seen My Brother? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thu 10th Jan 2019 12:07
Thank you Alan! No, we are definitely not alone. I think even the most confident, most successful, most sober and content have to deal with the idea of failure at some point.
Comment is about Always On The Losing Side (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Yes, fierce and tough I am! But I'd like to think that I fight with civility! Hopefully! And I'll let you in on a secret too! Deep down I'm a big, fat, vanilla softie!
Thank you Alan!
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Comment is about Consume or be Consumed (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Oh YES! Fierce and tough. I'd hate to have to fight you!
Comment is about Consume or be Consumed (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Big Sal
Sat 12th Jan 2019 02:19
Hope the New Year is a good one for you JR.
Be well buddy.
Comment is about J R Harris (poet profile)
Original item by J R Harris