Fifi Fanshawe
Updated: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:15 pm
Biography
Wordsmith. Comedic poet with attitude. 65% Victoria Wood, 25% John Cooper Clarke & 10% Joyce Grenfell. A mature woman surviving life's battles, anxious to tell the world why it sometimes has to lose. She has written all her life, and if she could write it again she'd make sure it had more exotic locations and an inherited fortune. Reviewers (sober ones) have said: Sassy, wickedly witty, fast paced and thoroughly entertaining.' 'Very clever word play, as good as Miss Wood.' 'Mischievous fun...hilarious...defiant.' Fifi's "Eponymous" album is available from Amazon, iTunes and all good MP3 dealers, or you can get a CD copy via the website www.fififanshawe.co.uk Follow Fifi on twitter: @FifiFanshawe Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thefifipage
Samples
Something in Pink I'm stuck here in something in pink, Rubber, five-fingered and plunged in the sink. If I must wear rubber,then make it a basque; A little excitement is all that I ask. And something's just struck me as I stand and think: My own wrinkled skin-suit is pink.
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Blog entries by Fifi Fanshawe
The Umpire’s Decision (05/07/2013)
Knitting A Poem (28/05/2013)
The Christmas Fox (23/12/2011)
The Nine Letters of Christmas (18/12/2011)
A favour, please... (15/12/2011)
ManagementSpeak (01/12/2011)
Jolly Fun (with apologies to Charles Causley) (24/11/2011)
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Comments
Hi Again Fifi, Thankyou for popping in and looking at my minimalist picasso poetry. Win :-) xxx
Hi Fifi - I will type up the poem on Boxing Day I think as it's a piece for just after Christmas.
Have a great time
Andy Nx
Hi Fifi
lol. You are a v funny lady. Win x
Fifi
I was really touched by your comment on Father. Christmas - Thank You!
steve mellor
Sat 3rd Dec 2011 17:34
Fifi, your comments on White Rose were absolutely spot on for me. I tried to get the feeling of peace into it.
Thanks for taking the time - appreciated
Lovely to have met you at Arvon too. I re-drafted Wife and Mother there, I had stupidly tried to give it a happy ending (for years), softening it so it didn't have an upsetting effect on folk. In its original form the ending always kind of irritated me, and I kind of felt "permission" to give it the proper last two stanzas there and remove the false ending. One of those poems which is coloured by whether the person reading / hearing it knows the background or the writer, no idea how it works if you know neither!
Hi Fifi, glad you enjoyed the Arvon. We have had 2 weekend residential WOL weekends so far in or near Hebden Bridge. Hopefully there will be another at some point, Winston
Hi Fifi! Hope you're doin' great! xx
Glad to be here!
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Mon 22nd Aug 2011 10:12
Hi Fifi, Welcome to WOL. Winston
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Andy N
Mon 2nd Jan 2012 20:48
Hi - My 12 days after Christmas poem is live on here now, Fifi.. http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=26422
Hope you had a better Christmas than the people in this poem! lol