First night was a total success - full house, fantastic performers, incredible atmosphere - went on until 11pm without losing any of its flair. Many of us stayed for drinks afterwards and had a great time. The Library Bar is a perfect venue and a lovely place for sipping red wine and writing poetry :)
Next one on the 4th of March! Don't miss it!
xx
Irina
Review is about Until the Light Goes Out on 4 Feb 2013 (event)
tony sheridan
Tue 5th Feb 2013 10:12
Great poem. I enjoyed reading this. Well done! Take care, Tony.
Comment is about The river (blog)
Original item by Wez Jefferies
Evocative. Deceptively simple - must have actually been difficult to construct. Enjoyed this, Ray. It nicely pinpoints the double-edged nature of intense positive experiences.
Comment is about My Favourite Glass (blog)
Original item by Ray Miller
You're back! I like this. It invites the reader to both feel life and think about it. The climbing image is effective, doubly so because you're clearly drawing on your own experience.
Comment is about Falling partners (blog)
Original item by Alison Smiles
Very beautifully put Nigel! Katy
Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Steve
Love it mate - how can we MAKE IT happen?
Ian
Comment is about The Day We Elected... (blog)
Original item by steve pottinger
<Deleted User> (8659)
Mon 4th Feb 2013 19:51
Enjoyed this very much-very descriptive and it works perfectly. I could feel the ground under my feet!
Comment is about MOUNT OLYMPUS (blog)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
Thanks for the tip about no 5, Robert. It turns that issue no 52 of Magma in which the latest example of Christian Ward's plagiarism appeared was called Putting On The Mask. He obviously felt this was a theme that was just up his street.
Comment is about Christian Ward's plagiarism 'mistakes' : is this no 4? (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Always make me smile, John! Great stuff. How about "... splash out on as *are* read"?
Comment is about SONNET 18 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Poetry24 published a version of this a few days ago, but I left out one of the stanzas to sneak in under their 40-line limit. ;-)
Comment is about The Day We Elected... (blog)
Original item by steve pottinger
Ray raises a good point about "he may splash out on as he's read". I agree that it isn't quite right although "when he's read" doesn't do it either. This would mean he's splashing out on his dirty book after he's read it. I'm trying to burn both ends of the pun ("splashed out" = spent money and ejaculated); so clearly he'd have spent money on it before he's read it.
I'm struggling to get these concepts in 10 iambic syllables. Any suggestions would be helpful.
In contrast, I'm happy with my original "wife-man's nagging" rather than "wife's man-nagging". "Wife-man/men" was the forebear of "woman/women".
Comment is about SONNET 18 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Great interview and insight into the world of performance poetry. Thanks Mark/Greg. Love the name of the website.
Comment is about The Write Out Loud interview: Mark Niel (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Remember - you don't have to live in the county: just have some lines that relate to it. It's a great concept that could be used to enriching effect across all the other counties.
Comment is about Putting Hampshire on the map with more than 100 poems (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
To think that people believed that the Bard would never have a "Selby" date! No wonder he headed south where his product is still untainted on the shelf!!
Comment is about SONNET 18 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (10865)
Mon 4th Feb 2013 14:17
Now we're at 5. Magma Poetry has just issued an apology for publishing Christian Ward's "Newton's First Law of Motion" which is identical, except for a few words, to Matthew Olzmann's "Sir Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion". Ward's version was printed in March 2012. Olzmann's appeared in the New England Review, Winter 2009/2010.
Comment is about Christian Ward's plagiarism 'mistakes' : is this no 4? (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Great idea, well executed.
And eke he may his wife-man’s nagging halt - I know it's meant to be faux Shakespearean but "eke"!"wife's man - nagging" might be better. Either way it's a line to stop and think about.
Forsooth he may splash out on as he’s read - wouldn't "when he's read" be plainer?
Much enjoyed
Comment is about SONNET 18 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A promiscuous curse from the tombs of enchantment sealed with the blood of your total sacrifice.
Comment is about Anthony and Katypatra (blog)
Original item by Katy Megan
Travis Brow
Mon 4th Feb 2013 10:30
Thanks John, i've often thought smell the most powerful of the senses. Apparently, some scientists now think there are quantum aspects involved.
Comment is about Toast. (blog)
tony sheridan
Mon 4th Feb 2013 10:15
Nice one John! The garden shed.....a castle! Take care, Tony.
Comment is about SONNET 18 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
tony sheridan
Mon 4th Feb 2013 10:12
OUCH! Nice one Hugh! Take care, Tony.
Comment is about Hilda hath no fear (blog)
Original item by hugh
It would appear that you are new here to WOL, welcome!
Of what your sampler shares with us, I definitely would love to read more of your work. Hope to see more soon. Thanks for sharing.
Comment is about johnandrews0412@fsmail.net (poet profile)
Original item by johnandrews0412@fsmail.net
The cadence provided rhythmic symmetry, its rhymes flowing without burden on the listening ear. A pleasant read. Thanks for sharing.
Comment is about Life (blog)
Original item by Chris Co
Aw! This is an absolute joy to read. Crisp in execution, thank you for sharing.
Comment is about SONNET 18 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
My days of being "picked up by the fuzz" are long gone, I'm afraid. These days I'm a pillock of the community.
Comment is about POLICE POETRY BOOK (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Tom,
Which shop is this?
I generally have to peep under the changing room curtain.
Comment is about Day 1 - Mirrored Glass (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
I was knackered just reading it!
Comment is about MOUNT OLYMPUS (blog)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
Good for you, MC! I've just found another one I like, a football poem called Coiled Blue http://www3.hants.gov.uk/poem-85.htm
Comment is about Putting Hampshire on the map with more than 100 poems (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thankyou for you comments on "Going Home Time", Yvonne. Good to hear that you're from vergernal stock. I don't suppose it's given you a thing about the uniform, has it?
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
Thankyou for you comments on "Going Home Time", MC. Yes, the quality of sitting alone in the Abbey owes a lot to the knowledge that timeless thousands have done so before.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Shape poem! And with a meaning and wonderful scenes and description. I didn't need the photo to aid my imagination. Thanks for sharing.
Comment is about MOUNT OLYMPUS (blog)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
Hey Wez! Thanks for your much welcome comments:
"Clever piece, and well written. :)"
You are gratefully appreciated. Cheers.
Comment is about Wez Jefferies (poet profile)
Original item by Wez Jefferies
Thank you kindly for your kind words of comment on my poem about legal tender:
"Even more binding when you think that money is
usually exchanged for some sort of service."
You are most appreciated, Harry.
Best regards, Frederick
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Thank you kindly, Yvonne, for your kind words in response to my poem about legal tender:
"clever piece, so much said in so few words. well constructed. I enjoyed it."
You are most appreciated. Cheers.
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
I like the lay out and the way you have used this to create the picture and I can smell the foliage!
Nice one Yvonne
Comment is about MOUNT OLYMPUS (blog)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
I agree with Greg. I have visited the site - and recalling a "Christmas" poem I was inspired to write when visiting family, I submitted it for consideration. I was also moved to comment on another poem on their poetry map. An excellent concept! I hope it reaches its aim of "200" poems.
Comment is about Putting Hampshire on the map with more than 100 poems (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Sorry you feel that way Stephen, but I'm glad you enjoyed the evenings. The last cancellation was outside our control, and we both turned up because we care about our audience. It's very easy to make negative comments, but I can assure you that putting spoken word events on isn't easy, especially as we receive no external funding whatsoever. I don't know what you're trying to achieve by posting negative reports, but you're still always welcome, ( I particularly enjoyed the poem you read in November). In fact, the drinks are on us if you come on Thursday, I think it'll be a really good evening.
All the best
Jimmy Andrex
Review is about Red Shed Readings on 7 Feb 2013 (event)
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sun 3rd Feb 2013 18:18
Have to stop reading a 'mo Harry-
while I have a scratch....x
Comment is about The anti - promiscuity calypso (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Anarchy equals "Freedom"?? How so? Surely it equates with "chaos".
Let us hope that the organised (as opposed to chaotic) forces of law and order track down those responsible for the crime.
Comment is about Poets urged to help bookshop after suspected arson attack (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sun 3rd Feb 2013 17:46
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sun 3rd Feb 2013 17:44
How secure can the Emir of Qatar feel if his regime sees fit to punish a poet so harshly for expressing a view? - the function of poets down the ages. There is reason to suspect that the speed of change in the Arab world, shown and perhaps promoted by modern communications like the internet, is causing a whiplash reaction from those who feel threatened by the wider realities of change in that world. Is a poet to be less feared in such an environment? As the question has it: How do you kill an idea?
Let us hope the Qatari judicial system acts to reduce the grotesque sentence and replace it with something more appropriate to a world that will otherwise leave it far behind.
Comment is about Qatari poet jailed for life to hear appeal verdict this month (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Yes I probably should have tried to give this piece a bit more of an aim Philip, and I'm no more a socialist than a capitalist.
And Malcom X said many things, it's a shame that his more violent ideas are most of what you see but in many ways he was similar to MLK. And I would say that yes we are lucky to live in one of the parts of the world with relative luxary and freedom, but I would say we are generally only allowed to ask 'why?' within set social boundaries.
Comment is about A civil war, where the mind is as powerful as the gun (blog)
Original item by Wez Jefferies
Imaginatively conceived - and constructed!
Comment is about MOUNT OLYMPUS (blog)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
Seams about par for the course for Barclays. Plenty of ambulance chasing firms out there would be keen to help Bert.
Good poem for bringing people's attention to injustice
Comment is about Barclay's in Bletchley-sliding doors shut on 85 year old ! (blog)
Original item by hugh
There should always a place for the human question
"Why?"
But what is remembered now: the violent incitements of a Malcom X -
OR "I have a dream..."?
We have to be careful what we wish for and how to get it. There is unspoken "luxury" being able to live in a country that has the word "fair" in its vocabulary and the freedom to ask "Why".
Comment is about A civil war, where the mind is as powerful as the gun (blog)
Original item by Wez Jefferies
Mark certainly sounds like an energetic poet and fair play to ANYONE trying to make a living out of it!.
Sadly having lived in MK for thirty years I feel that the pressures of having to compose stuff about civic events (instead of getting under the skin of the melting pot that is this wannabe city) somewhat dilutes much of the content.
Aren't these positions more like court jesters than poet laureates?
Comment is about The Write Out Loud interview: Mark Niel (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
yes i know the chinese slang would do that in todays pc barmy world. it goes with the piece. the chinese rip everything off. planes, dvds etc. thanx for reading.
Comment is about Bellyache (for Weird Harold) (blog)
Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER
<Deleted User> (10841)
Sun 3rd Feb 2013 12:45
Hi Yvonne. Thanks for your kind comments on my blog post about "Pretty Fragments."
The prediction is a really fun thing to take part in, it was the one thing that got me writing seriously again 3 years ago. The folks that take part are very welcoming.
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
Greg Freeman
Tue 5th Feb 2013 12:08
Just seen your edited version of this, Fiona. Nice work.
Comment is about Clock (blog)
Original item by fiona sinclair