Simple rhythms for a simple flower. Very apt, MC. My prims and pollys are looking good.
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Thanks, Graham (somewhat belatedly). Nice to be here.
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You can find more of my poetry including some videos by searching on line for SUBACCHI POET.
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<Deleted User> (9882)
Fri 3rd Apr 2015 16:37
'can I afford to say whatever?' er..not to the bearded man in the white robe,thats for sure!
Another good 'un dude! x
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Greg, you are probably right. I just thought it rather strange that the judge used the fact he 'didn't quite grasp what it was about' as his main criteria. 'Most of all'.
Also, I've got a whole lot of questions to ask about this poem- for one, how does silence 'crackle'?
I didn't enter the comp so I'm not into sour grapes. I don't mean to be rude to the writer, just thought this poem needed so serious re-writing and am not sure how it won £5K. The judges report certainly does little to enlighten me.
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Ms Hamilton hi. This is good. A clever, humorous -if dark- allegory (if?) done with an impatient " is that a fact" smile. Impressive turns in your phrasing with some delicious lines. Well wrought. Esq.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but I thought it was about an old lady going down to the pub to get her flagon refilled with cider. For some reason I thought of the novelist Jean Rhys in her later years.
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PRESS RELEASE - KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON, a new collection of poetry by Trevor Maynard
Release Date: November 28, 2012 (updated Feb 2015)
Contact: Trevor Maynard, poetry@trevormaynard.com
Website: www.trevormaynard.com
From a biscuit crumb on your lover’s lips, to the death of a Princess,
to the formation of galaxies far far away, human is our condition, life is our journey,
and come agony, joy, or even world-weariness, people, let’s just keep on keepin’ on
Introduction
What a person writes is universal, because they themselves are human, and this can be words of ecstasy, of profound happiness; or it can be the depths of depression, the loss of love; or it can social commentary – putting the world to rights; or merely shooting the breeze – accessing the lexicon to have fun; but all in all, one thing poetry is, is emotional truth.
Synopsis
The book consists of sixty-three poems divided into five chapters, written on or before 2012, with an appendix of author’s notes on thirteen of the poems, four articles on poetry craft, and notes on the authors work as editor of THE POETIC BOND.
The Chapters
BLACK DOG, exploring the dark corners of the soul, where our fears live, and where redemption is scant.
PANOPTICON, the all-pervasive watching eye of society, we are not alone, and Big Brother is out there and to be engaged in battle.
OBSVERVATION, the writer watching is not separate from his surroundings, they are also part of it, and the humanity of the writer gives their work its universality.
LOVING, what is mankind without love? These poems explore the deepest truth our existence, how we love and are loved, and the complication of human relations – as they are apt it say in the movies nowadays “it’ complicated”.
ANSWERS, yes, this is a poetry book that asks a lot of questions, that makes a lot of observations, but it is also a book of seeking answers. We are not just individuals in a pool of mud forever climbing ladders that sink deeper; we are the individuals, the ladders, and the mud.
The Articles
SMELL ME A POEM – Exploring poetry from the perspective of our sense of smell
POETRY AND THE WAR ON TERROR – is the purpose of poetry to do more than bear witness
INSTANT POETRY – an example of the process of creating a poem from stream of consciousness
MY PROSE IS MY POETRY – examining the difference (or not) between poetry and prose
The Poetic Bond
Trevor Maynard is editor of The Poetic Bond, an on-going series of poetry anthologies garnered from new media, social and professional networking, whose purpose is evolve organically a collection of poetry based on the emergent consensus of work submitted in a three month time window. To date, four anthologies have been published in paperback, with the fifth, open to submissions from 31 March until June 30, 2015.
Ten plays by Trevor Maynard have been performed on stage in London, Edinburgh and Touring
Trevor Maynard combines complicated thematic material and unites fractured images with a sure hand. (Review for The Stage, 1990)
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PRESS RELEASE
THE POETIC BOND IV
ISBN 978-1503034525, available in paperback through
AMAZON and www.thepoeticbond.com
Framed by the poems "How To Love A Woman" (Patrica Pfahl) and "The Scent of Trees" (Belinda Dupret), Trevor Maynard has curated an eclectic anthology of poetry, mostly garnered from social and professional networking. The idea is to capture the zeitgeist, Poetry of The Now, organically grown and nurtured, to explore the human condition, entertain, and educate.
As well as the single poem sections FOREWORD and AFTERWORD; there as QUESTIONS, seven poems seeking answers to love and life; CONSUMED, eight poems jumping off from technology and social structure of modern consumerist society; EARTHLY, nine poem on Nature and Man’s place in/against it; and HUMANE, explorations of the human condition, ten poems of mortality and loss.
Below is a taste of the poetic style and themes in the anthology, which will hopefully give you a good feel for the book as a whole. All clips are copyright the authors and are used by permission. They reproduced from The Poetic Bond IV, edited by Trevor Maynard, and published by Willowdown Books © 2014.
At the Cost of Others’ Eyes © RH Peat
“Film of dust upon your heart
will you kneel in this quagmire
for the scraps the jackal has left behind,
or will you soar like a Snowy Owl
before the sheer mountain's white cliffs
wanting to be those eyes inside the night?”
Daddy, who the moon in half? © Bonnie Roberts
“I lie in my scratchy Mission blanket,
Shiver for the Truth,
Plead, hold out my arms,
Like the Starving Pilgrim.”
Wrangle © Mark Beechill
“Get to work
Stare at a screen
Fudge numbers
Stare at the scars on my hand
Hide in the toilet
Doubt the meaning of existence
Eat lunch
Feel sleepy
Go out
Walk in the woods
See a squirrel
Come back
Stare at the screen
Watch the clock
Think about the cat
Think about girls
Listen to the music in my head
Hide in the toilet again”
Art Show © Rosalind Brenner
“Her body is the war zone.
Her art, the bi-polarity of existence.
Behind her a naked man and woman,
face to face. Walk through the narrow space
between them to the rest of her exhibit.”
Obsidian © Patricia Pfahl
“warriors
many laughing women
showing berry-stained teeth
keep the meat
scrape the hide”
Another Kind of Sunset © Clark Cook
“on the hard wet sand at the frothy edge of the receding tide, a red snapper lies in curved rigid pose, one side half-skeletal…”
Alzheimer Blues I – It’s OK © Diane Jardel
“Oh I’ve put your pyjamas on again
But you are laughing so it’s OK
You have to watch me like a baby
But I know it’s OK when you smile at me.”
What was left © Cigeng Zhang
“Petals fallen
Essence rotten
Where to join
A funeral march”
Clarity © Trevor Maynard
“Every moment so clear, as if it were
Yesterday, or now; we staggered from
Party to party, abject in our failing with
Girls; astonished at our success, with girls
That innocence, growing up together, clarity”
To Set a Big Cry Free © Peter Hagen
“It’s full of
hunted reason”
Editors' Notes
1. FOR A PDF PRESS COPY OF THE POETIC BOND IV, contact Trevor Maynard at poetry@trevormaynard.com on 0 44 7966 079968 or by snail mail at Willowdown Books, 105 Crockford Park Road, Addletone, Surrey, UK, KT15 2LP
2. Trevor Maynard, UK based poet and writer, manager of Poetry, Review and Discuss Group, a major poetry group on LinkedIn. His new poetry collection is KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON (was published November 27 2012). He is also the author of several plays. Further information at http://www.trevormaynard.com
3.The Poets of The POETIC BOND IV (2014) are; Christine Anderes (USA), Mark Beechill (UK), Scott Pendragon Black (USA), Rosalind Brenner (USA) Clark Cook (Canada), Catherine DeWolf (USA), William DiBenedetto (USA), Belinda Dupret (UK), Bonnie J. Flach (US), G A. Franke (USA), Ingrid Gjelsvik (Norway), GK Grieve (UK), Peter Hagen (Norway), Seamus Harrington (Eire), Diane Jardel (Eire), Trevor Maynard (UK), Clare Mikkelsen (USA), Jude Neale (Canada), Hongvan Nguyen (USA), RH Peat (USA), Patricia Pfahl (Canada), Bonnie Roberts (USA), Sayed H. Rohani (Afghanistan), Peter Alan Soron (UK), Cigeng Zhang (China)
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'I couldn't quite grasp what it was about'. Yep, I'm with you there.
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again Lynn I thank you for your kindness.
I accept your compliment, it means a very great deal to me - namaste or whatever that thing is when you put your hands together and thank you blessings.
and likewise allow me to thank you for expressing it.
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Lynn Hamilton
Thu 2nd Apr 2015 23:15
Jeremy. My comments are not out of kindness, it is the way you, in my humble opiniom, lovingly strum the words and form a tune x
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thank you Lynn and Lea for your kindness.
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Thanks for your thoughts, MC. you don't have to be a religious person to feel the spirituality of the place.
Comment is about LIKE A VERGER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
You have convinced me. This flows along nicely under it's own steam. marvellous.
Comment is about I Used to be Defensive (blog)
Lynn Hamilton
Thu 2nd Apr 2015 16:59
Thank you Mr T Carroll esq for taking a peek and your comment. You have obviously misread me a little by assuming my taste is of such a high quality. Think more warm Skol! Looking forward to having some time read your work. x
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I recall an old BBC Radio slot called "Thought For The Day"
- and this would fit that concept to perfection. And
JC's voice puts the listener in direct contact with the
material..."from the heart".
Comment is about LIKE A VERGER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Sterling yes, dollars no.
Comment is about Breasts Gone Wrong (blog)
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Lynn Hamilton
Thu 2nd Apr 2015 14:11
Anita - you're here! Fantastic. You were kidding me. xx
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Lynn Hamilton
Thu 2nd Apr 2015 13:25
Just been reading through some of your work and I have have to say that I find it beautiful. You are a very talented man. Lynn
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Thanks for looking in Anita. The last verse came some time after the first two. I couldn’t quite get it right but I'll work on it!
Comment is about The Ballad of a Middle Aged Man (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
Hi Greg I knew I wasn't the first to write on the theme of 'Nothing' - Rochester and Thom Gunn to name but two got there before me, but I didn't realise the MP team had got there before me as well. A commendable piece of wisdom very well expresed!
Thanks again for the great night you organized at King's X.
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Hi Harry Thanks for the interesting comments on my poem 'Nothing'.
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Thu 2nd Apr 2015 02:52
Thank you so much for taking the time to read 'Passion and Determination.' I really appreciate your comment and I'm so glad you liked it.
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True
Comment is about The way to learn fuckall (blog)
Peter...Amen.
Comment is about Eternity (blog)
I like this...it is really about cost.
I particularly like the idea of the sown seed `unbounding` into a tree, as a feeling of power in tinyness
Comment is about Passion and Determination (blog)
Original item by Clive
Hello Harry,
Not such an old gimmer are you? recognising the Madonna song?
As for that communion wine - it's 15% ABV!
Thanks for posting.
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Hello Harry,
Not such an old gimmer are you? recognising the Madonna song?
As for that communion wine - it's 15% ABV!
Thanks for posting.
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Read and enjoyed your poem and loved the subject matter! Am new to this site so am not sure how comments are supposed to be made or in what context. So forgive me, I felt the last 3 lines are not quite right! x
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Nat,
twelve defensives...and only one conviction?
You fibber!
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John,
your love of the architectural historic comes through so strongly in this that - the first time you opened those west doors - the angels must have sang:
Just like a verger
Blissed for the very first time.
and don`t forget, some of those monks were ace at turnin`out that fortified wine.
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Original item by John Coopey
That first verse is a bit of a tongue twister! lol I wanna too x
Comment is about I Wanna (blog)
Dear IAL Thanks for kind comment on 'The Ice House'.
Comment is about Clive (poet profile)
Original item by Clive
Oh.
I thought you were being sarcastic. :(
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Preeti Sinha
Wed 1st Apr 2015 09:36
Brando is God ! Love that !
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Preeti Sinha
Wed 1st Apr 2015 09:34
Perfect ! So, so true :0
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Preeti Sinha
Wed 1st Apr 2015 09:31
I love that you are so openly vulnerable...great writing
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Johnny Tafulu
Wed 1st Apr 2015 04:40
Its getting old...Conspiracies are set to destroy sell outs honey.
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Johnny Tafulu
Wed 1st Apr 2015 04:34
Lol thank hun I'm glad you enjoy the kinky appeal.
Comment is about How I Want You (blog)
Original item by UInk
your diction is fantastic.
Comment is about moon is shining bright as day (blog)
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"Spent cartridges of fellow men" absolutely LOVE this line!
Great write :)
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Many thanks to Michael for taking such time and trouble with this interview, at a time when he is obviously also preparing for the Easter superjams to celebrate his 80th birthday. Much to my regret, owing to family circumstances I won't be able to get to any of them. But I would certainly aim to be at the 11 June gig at Kensington town hall.
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Original item by Greg Freeman
well done Laura - keep up the good work
Comment is about Wanted: 'poet-type' to front new band (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Ian
I would hazard an educated guess that it is a paid opportunity, as there will almost certainly be gigs on the horizon, unless of course the artist is planning to never play in public, or only intends on playing for free, forever.
So you do believe that a job ad is equally comparable to a poetry competition then? Interesting perspective. As I mentioned - best you contact the organisers involved, if you believe their practices to be discriminatory.
As a long-term member of the Write Out Loud team, it is part of my responsibility to keep an eye out for such things, but thank you for your kind offer.
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Lynn Hamilton
Sat 4th Apr 2015 14:06
Thank you again, Mr Tommy Carroll, for your comments, which after reading your fantastic way with words is much appreciated. I can tell from your comment that you also see - there is a difference - maybe it's because we share the same Northern grit? x
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