ooOOoo cordless eh? I looked at them but the sodding charger cost more than the saw itself! Bugger that.
Nope - we only have outdoor fires. I'd love to convert the gas fire into a proper one, as I grew up with a coal fire and am quite obsessed with flames in general :D Was a bit of a firebug as a child - everything got burned!
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
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I feel a bit breathless after reading this. So many images flying at me, such a feeling of speed - sort of mirroring the crash itself perhaps. There definitely feels like a Mangum influence to this too.
Another cracker Stu. Blimey.
Comment is about Blink (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
do you perform these live? there is so much sexy word play in here it would be a shame if you didnt. in fact the whole thing is very hiphopian. which is a word i made up.
Comment is about Scott Peterson 0000 (09/24/2015) (blog)
Original item by Zach Dafoe
a very detailed inner journey delicately and beautifully depicted . Nice work.
Comment is about The inner landscape (blog)
Original item by Marie-Anne
I know I'm a bit late but loved this. Sums up a load of memories.
Comment is about ROCK GIG (blog)
Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER
That all sounds delightful Laura - very middle earth. Although we have meagre funds, the access to Surrey woods is limited to walking dogs and 4X4 family bonding with health and safety uppermost. No chance of me wading about with the chainsaw, although I do have a cordless one! Ok for light jobs. Sorry to be boring, but do you not season yours before consigning them to the flames? Outdoors it doesn't matter anyway, but we have a log burner, so we're only playing at it! About £60 so far - but then don't forget the cost of the wine!
Yes I altered a word near the end and you spotted it, and thanks. I thought it was pivotal .
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Just to let you know Martin in 1990 I did do a home made movie called The Fantastic Foursome but my acting name was Stretchy Rubber Rocket and not Tommy.
The only thing I can add is I did have a moustache but it was ginger and I did not have a short fuse but liked drinking milk from my girlfriend Big Breasted Mary who was having a baby by a visiting alien.
I hope that clears any connection up.
Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)
Original item by Martin Elder
Many thanks for these fascinating answers, Attila - and for being such a supporter of Write Out Loud. Hope we'll have a chance for a chat at Aldeburgh. I'll look out for you in the cafeteria! I must add that Aldeburgh have corrected me - there will be a third performance poet there at the festival in early November, Jack Rooke.
Comment is about 'Poetry books will sell if people can relate to what you are writing': Attila the Stockbroker (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Haha :D
Comment is about 'Poetry books will sell if people can relate to what you are writing': Attila the Stockbroker (article)
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Ah so you buy your wood? I refuse to, on the grounds that a) we're skint and b) we can go and get it ourselves for nowt! Also, we really like going and gathering firewood. It's part of that primal process. The fella usually uses a manual saw but I bought him a leccy one for his birthday, and you've never seen more delight shown at an electrical item as that day haha :D
Enjoy getting lost in your flames, Ray :)
ps - I noticed you'd edited. MUCH better now, and it was already great ;)
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
Original item by ray pool
Cheers Laura and Greg. Took ages to do and I stand by every word. If it's any help, the more 'driven' and determined answers were written to the musical accompaniment of 'Spectre' by Laibach, VERY LOUD. (Robina was out.) I wouldn't recommend that to all potential interviewees though.
Comment is about 'Poetry books will sell if people can relate to what you are writing': Attila the Stockbroker (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
This is an absolutely amazing interview Greg!! I've got interview technique envy now :D Nice one! Great questions, belting answers. See thee in November Attila!
Comment is about 'Poetry books will sell if people can relate to what you are writing': Attila the Stockbroker (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I have revised the poem Thank you for the excellent feedback useful for refining it further.
Comment is about The Clamour Of The Silence (blog)
Original item by Alem Hailu G/Kristos
Thu 24th Sep 2015 03:11
Thankyou each, for your comments.
I have to say that I am not entirely innocent of being ridiculed for thingsI I did when I was younger, drunker and dafter, in particular, of where I may have introduced my plonker; but pigs remain on my bucket list.
Comment is about I GOT YOU, BABE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I knew a kid (l lie) in school called Ritchie Leith, 'onest!
Comment is about CROSSWORDS IN THE PUB (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
I rifled my brain, but snout doin'.
Comment is about oink (a haiku for dave) (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
I identify with the inspiration of these lines. Some time ago, on a successful search to locate the grave of my
late father's first cousin, murdered by Michael Collins' "hit
squad" on the original Bloody Sunday in 1920, I saw an
adjacent grave which told a tragic story which I put into
my poem "A Tombstone Tells Its Tale". Cemeteries have
much to tell us - much, in fact, to teach us - if we take
the time so cruelly taken from their inhabitants of the past.
Comment is about The Clamour Of The Silence (blog)
Original item by Alem Hailu G/Kristos
Nice thought - but I saw in a TV news/text report that
coaches were being painted "GREEN". If my memory serves
me correctly, that was the colour used on the Southern
Railway (Region). I trust and hope this TV report erred!!
Comment is about FOLLOWING ON (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I will wait with much interest to note how the new Labour
leader's economic ideas show signs of working. As my
late mother was fond of observing: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating."
As for Todd's philosophy - born of a life full of trying and
failing, for richer and poorer - he deserves more that the
dismissive "Tod (sic) talked stupidly". His life's experiences
were born out of the knowledge of working towards goals
and whether failing or succeeding, keeping the mind open
and ready to carry on regardless of success or failure.
I continue my quest for an official definition of "poor" - a
word so readily adopted these days across the social
spectrum here in the UK.
Comment is about COR - LABOUR'S FOR THE BYN! (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Cruel but kind...of bloody funny! 10/10 for out-loud laughter.
...........................................
"I look at my picture and know I am
The beneficiary of too much spam.
They may be those who think it's sinister
The Tories are back and I'm still prime minister
But I've got you Sam...I've got you Sam."
Comment is about I GOT YOU, BABE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks so much for your blisteringly good comments re the Log Man. Fulsome praise from a reliable source!
The primitive pleasure remains the most sublime . I just collected my winter's logpile from the man described. He is worthy of a tribute, surrounded by prepared piles of different woods for the asking. (like a sweet shop in a way). bloody hard work to load and unload but I'm now done and what a great way to relax responding to you.
You couldn't invent a better scenario.
cheers, Laura.
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Laura Taylor
it was, i was imagining me tripping over the words in a comical fashion when i performed it live.
its a sad memory indeed, even more so as its a genetic illness and is now seeing quite nicely to my mum as well...
Comment is about noddy holder (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Thanks Laura.
Imagination helps!
Comment is about CROSSWORDS IN THE PUB (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
http://smellofbooks.com/
'sigh'
i often feel very detached!
Comment is about one of my turns (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
I like this Andy, the wistfulness of what might have been
Comment is about Jazz Record cut off half note (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Glad you enjoyed it as much as me Greg - fantastic isn't it?! Proper looking forward to the gig with him in November :)
Comment is about Arguments Yard: Attila the Stockbroker, Cherry Red (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Rousing! Love it! God - wouldn't that be great?!
Tiny typo here though?
'That you we will not go without' - should that 'we' be in there?
Comment is about We (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Another acutely-well-observed poem David - sometimes you make my teeth itch, you see things so clearly.
Comment is about CROSSWORDS IN THE PUB (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
Ooof. As a childhood OCDer (an obsession with symmetry that took over my entire life - managed to get it somewhat under control by the age of 11) I KNOW this one. Interesting backstory, and the theme of quite a lot of poems funnily enough.
Comment is about 6 (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Unusual style this - social commentary in a strangely detached delivery.
And no, it's not just you.
(Is that true about the e-book?!)
Comment is about one of my turns (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
A fine tribute. I looked up Corinthians 2:4 - that's a nice blending of the message therein, and Ben's religion.
Comment is about Corinthians 2.4 (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Just to say - EDITING?! Where will it all end?! In better poems, that's where ;)
Comment is about soft (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Another corker. Awwwr. A bittersweet memory and knowledge of the underside of history.
Repetition of 'crackers' in the first stanza, fourth line - is that deliberate?
Comment is about noddy holder (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Hahahahaaa!!! :D :D Brilliant :D
Comment is about I GOT YOU, BABE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Oh I love this, it's delicious. Me and my fella love to have fires in our little concrete yard. We go and collect firewood from a little wood near home, and there is nothing finer than sitting in front of the flames, with a well-built fire and a good solid base, staring up at the stars sometimes with a nice glass of red.
This poem sums it all up beautifully. Love it! I can't even pick out favourite lines - it's all fab. Nicely done Ray.
Comment is about THE LOG MAN (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Wed 23rd Sep 2015 11:23
this is really powerful, my favourite line is 'every breath I take is defiance' x
Comment is about math 30 (9/22/2015) (blog)
Original item by Zach Dafoe
DeSimone's infamy rests on his depiction by actor Joe Pesci in the 1990 movie Goodfellas (renamed Tommy DeVito in the film), a role for which Pesci won the 1990 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The movie took some artistic liberties: primarily, DeSimone was six years younger than Hill in real life, not the same age (as implied when they first meet). While depicted in the film as a small man with an attitude, DeSimone was a large, burly enforcer, standing at 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) and around 225 pounds. Paul Cicero (based on Vario) at one point states that Tommy is a "good kid, but a cowboy with too much to prove."
DeSimone had a hair-trigger temper. One of his sisters claimed "Tommy's teenage years revolved around boxing, lifting weights, smoking cigarettes, and beating a punching bag he kept in a spare room. He had a short fuse, and an animalistic appetite. He would drink almost a gallon of whole milk a day. His only other childhood hobby was collecting different kinds of pocket knives he kept in an old cigar box under his bed."
Comment is about Guess Who? (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
O.K. I'm a schumck, I know nothing , I wasn't there , I didn't see nuthin !
Comment is about Guess Who? (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?
Comment is about Guess Who? (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Tommy deSimone, feared Mafia hitman. He was played by Joe Pesce in Goodfellas.
Comment is about Guess Who? (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Thanks for your comments guys, much appreciated, sometimes its good to be reminded of all that we have and all that others haven't., particularly in a society obsessed with possessions and material gain.
Comment is about We (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
We're all making plans for Nigel ?
Comment is about Guess Who? (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
This very much appeals to me as it has a moving simplicity to it and reaches out in a personal sense, maybe in the same way as someone who by luck has been spared some catastrophe and who feels uncomfortable with the others who have passed away.
Interesting concept!
Comment is about The Clamour Of The Silence (blog)
Original item by Alem Hailu G/Kristos
The list below are supporters of Jeremy Corbyn's economic plan.
They happen to be mainstream ECONOMISTS.
David Blanchflower
Bruce V Rauner professor of economics, Dartmouth and Stirling, ex-member of the MPC
Mariana Mazzucato
Professor, Sussex
Grazia Ietto-Gillies
Emeritus professor, London South Bank University
Malcolm Walker
Emeritus professor, Leeds
Robert Wade
Professor, LSE
Michael Burke
Economist
Steve Keen
Professor, Kingston University London
Victoria Chick
Emeritus professor, UCL
Anna Coote
NEF personal capacity
Ozlem Onaran
Professor, Greenwich
Andrew Cumbers
Professor, Glasgow
Tina Roberts
Economist
Dr Suzanne J Konzelmann
Birkbeck
Tanweer Ali
Lecturer, New York
John Weeks
Professor, SOAS
Marco Veronese Passarella
Lecturer, University of Leeds
Dr Judith Heyer
Emeritus Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford
Dr Jerome De-Henau
Senior lecturer, Open University
Stefano Lucarelli
Professor, University of Bergamo
Paul Hudson
Formerly Universität Wissemburg-Halle
Mario Seccareccia
Professor, Ottawa
Dr Pritam Singh
Professor, Oxford Brookes
Arturo Hermann
Senior research fellow at Istat, Rome
Dr John Roberts
Brunel
Cyrus Bina
Professor, Minnesota
Alan Freeman
Retired former economist
George Irvin
Professor, SOAS
Susan Pashkoff
Economist
Radhika Desai
Professor, University of Manitoba
Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
Associate professor, University of Oxford
Guglielmo Forges Davanzati
Associate professor, University of Salento
Jeanette Findlay
Senior lecturer, Glasgow
Raphael Kaplinsky
Emeritus professor, Open University
John Ross
Socialist Economic Bulletin
Steven Hail
Adjunct lecturer, University of Adelaide
Louis-Philippe Rochon
Associate professor, Laurentian
Hilary Wainwright
Editor, Red Pepper
Arturo Hermann
Senior researcher, ISAE, Rome
Joshua Ryan-Collins
NEF personal capacity
James Medway
Lecturer, City University
Alberto Paloni
Professor, Glasgow
Dr Mary Roberton
Leeds
Comment is about COR - LABOUR'S FOR THE BYN! (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Tod talked stupidly. Regardless of ones fiscal or social position, poverty, whether relative or absolute, has never been merely a state of mind. Try paying a restaurant bill in that currency.
Comment is about COR - LABOUR'S FOR THE BYN! (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Julian (Admin)
Fri 25th Sep 2015 11:10
What a superb interview, Greg and Attila. As many know, that quote of Adrian Mitchell's is at the heart of Write Out Loud's philosophy, though, as Attila reminds us, performance poetry is but one part of the poetry spectrum, an increasingly popular part. Many thanks for this great interview.
Comment is about 'Poetry books will sell if people can relate to what you are writing': Attila the Stockbroker (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman