this is great tommy. a fragment of time encapsulated with emotion and clarity. whoop and joy for you.
Comment is about shadowed looks (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Good point, Steven, will amend. But is there an apostrophe in 1990's? I always think not ...
Comment is about Rhymes, Rock & Revolution: the story of performance poetry (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (8659)
Thu 15th Oct 2015 10:59
I like this one Tommy-it gives a glimpse, and just a glimpse, into a secret.
Comment is about shadowed looks (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
I didn't know Slam performances started at the end of the 2nd century AD, I thought they didn't start till the 1990's (proofreading needed...)
Comment is about Rhymes, Rock & Revolution: the story of performance poetry (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Lynn Hamilton
Wed 14th Oct 2015 22:35
I just like to write x
Comment is about Gentle Bones (blog)
There is so much poetry about just now that I felt obliged to complete this part two of a poem I blogged before but left this `spell` out (because the first one seemed to go on for ever).
I`ve repeated the first few stanzas of the first one so the readers of this could `get` what it`s about.
Comment is about High rise city centre fairy tale (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Life, crammed into 12 lines . . makes you think
best wishes, Steve
Comment is about LUST (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Less is more as they say, and the sparseness of this poem gives it all the more power,
best wishes, Steve
Comment is about Fear (blog)
Newberry I would agree, lust itself is a very dangerous thing to obtain, but vigorous and healthy are wonderful qualities so lusty is the best definitely
Comment is about Lusting Sin (blog)
Original item by Abi Thomson
Excess can be overwhelming in many aspects of life if
allowed to take control.
Collins English Gem Dictionary:
Lust - n. sensual desire; carnal appetite; v.t. to have
passionate desire.
Lusty - a. vigorous, healthy
Perhaps a little lusty lust is best?
Comment is about Lusting Sin (blog)
Original item by Abi Thomson
What a great parallel, Huw. I am often being drawn to great works by the occasional similarities of my humble
offerings. That one was apposite and in itself poetic.!
Thanks.
Comment is about THEY LAUGH IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES (blog)
Original item by ray pool
I'm glad you agree, thanks for posting!
Comment is about Lusting Sin (blog)
Original item by Abi Thomson
<Deleted User> (13762)
Wed 14th Oct 2015 13:48
Ray - you made me sing this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQKEyV4tvPo
thanks - I love this song!
Comment is about THEY LAUGH IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Lynn Hamilton
Wed 14th Oct 2015 13:14
No need for apologies, David. The fact that people read, relate to and comment on any of my work is very much appreciated. I wish I got to control the productivity but, as you 'k' feckin now, it doesn't quite work they way with me!
Comment is about Fear (blog)
Thanks raypool.
I didn't know Michael Green's book was still in print. I read it many times when still at school in the early 70s and an enthusiastic amateur actor!
Comment is about HAMLET FROM THE FRONT ROW (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
A hole in one this, Stu - succinct and satisfying.
Comment is about marmalade (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Very enjoyable and great sense of pathos - it reminds me of going to local am dram stuff and being in hysterics with a friend to be told stuffily" if you aren't enjoying it why don't you leave?" but we were of course.
regards, Ray
ps I recommend "The art of coarse acting" by Michael Green.
Comment is about HAMLET FROM THE FRONT ROW (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
I just changed Lay still to Lie still - tut tut.
Thanks Graham. That's a bit spooky as well!
Comment is about INCUBUS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
he does have a bit of a look him with nigel i think though (:
Comment is about Guess Who? (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
sums up a really good night this guys everytime.
great idea and enjoyed reading it as always
Comment is about Stockport WoL Collage Poem: Shades (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Thanks I wanted to add some depth to this poem to portray an internal war of heartache and struggle, thanks for reading and commenting :)
Comment is about P (blog)
Original item by Abi Thomson
Graham that's really impressive how did you manage to set up your own professional blog?
Comment is about Abi Thomson (poet profile)
Original item by Abi Thomson
Thanks Stu. You're ahead of me there. I thought of the darkling days and what might appeal - thank goodness you are always there for me!
Apparently succubus is lady doing the man - I could have adapted it. I don't think there is a demon that takes gays into account, but I could be wrong. Should we invent one?
Comment is about INCUBUS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Abi, here it is, a lot is duplicated but it's a nice place to keep it tidier.
http://grahamsherwoodpoetry.blogspot.co.uk/
Comment is about Abi Thomson (poet profile)
Original item by Abi Thomson
Thank you both, Graham I just read your stuff on WOL is there a link for your personal blog on your page?
Comment is about Abi Thomson (poet profile)
Original item by Abi Thomson
<Deleted User> (13762)
Wed 14th Oct 2015 10:04
thanks martin. they were off hand and straight down because i was angry but the more i read them back the more i like them. brevity is the friend of the ditherer.
Comment is about marmalade (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Take care of those bronchial tubes, Harry. Still, an "itis"
makes a change from those tedious "isms".
By the way, I believe that the three of us can justifiably
lay claim to being the senior contributors on WOL, with -
I estimate - a combined total of approximately 210-220
years between us. But isn't imagination a wonderful
thing? bettered only by memory in certain instances - whatever the age.
Comment is about LUST (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Lynn Hamilton
Tue 13th Oct 2015 23:28
Thank you for your comment
Huw. Much appreciated.
Comment is about Fear (blog)
Thanks Stu.
Yes it was me but I was heading home having been to the Birmingham Literature Festival to read my selected poem 'The Gun That Killed Gandhi'.
Regards,
David
Comment is about HAMLET FROM THE FRONT ROW (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
Ah, yes!...I remember it well!
(croaks old Harry through his bronchitis)
Comment is about LUST (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
love this. its very clever and as someone who has stood in the globe theatre in a party of people who did not want to be there i can sympathise. fairly sure i saw you last night walking up past the train station. hope you werent on your way to voicebox, which finished extremely early.
Comment is about HAMLET FROM THE FRONT ROW (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
Hi Abi
And welcome. Thank you so much for your kind comments.
I love your sample poem it is wonderfully honest. Can't wait to read more.
Martin
Comment is about Abi Thomson (poet profile)
Original item by Abi Thomson
Hello Abi, thank you for your kind comments on my poetry. Did you look at my personal blog or just the stuff on WOL?
Either way I hope you enjoy it here. Look forward to reading your work
Very best regards,
Graham
Comment is about Abi Thomson (poet profile)
Original item by Abi Thomson
I totally agree John WOW!
Comment is about Stockport WoL Collage Poem: Shades (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Comment is about Stockport WoL Collage Poem: Shades (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Killer lines these Stu, particularly the second one which seems to have quite a sharp edge. Once again succinct and to the point. Nice one.
Comment is about marmalade (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
i like this. it reminds me of succubae, sleep paralysis and the shakespeare's sisters song 'stay'. probably not about any of that but hey ho. its very edgar allen poe as well.
Comment is about INCUBUS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
An illuminating programme and desperately sad. Simon Armitage read Hughes very well and offered, what seemed to me, a useful insight into the poet's effectiveness and approach, and there were touching recollections from friends and family - the male biographer, perhaps too much the apologist, seemed to be unravelling by the end of the tale, & small wonder. Oh, Ted Hughes was the real thing alright.
Comment is about 'Both my parents were on my exam syllabus' - Frieda Hughes (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I think the comments from Laura Taylor give a first
rate first hand insight into this subject.
In other performance arts, agents and promoters
actively work towards getting an audience for
performers. The latter, when successful, will have
their names/reputations to encourage audiences to
come and boost the confidence of the agents and promoters to put on the "acts". Any performance is
just that and we are asked: "Is not a workman
worthy of his hire?" I have no first-hand knowledge
but assume that in the poetry performance world
there are popular gigs where the "paid" approach is expected and completed to common consent.
Poets "on the up" might expect to contribute to
their public progress before being considered to be
audience-pullers and financially viable for inclusion
- and payment...just as there are those who self-
publish prior to moving towards paid publication.
Comment is about Don't Pay The Poets (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Thanks JC. I had it in mind that there's nothing wrong
with honest lust between consenting parties and lucky
souls should make the most of it in this life. The toast
analogy was encouraged by a late breakfast - using
my toaster - but, I have to admit, minus the lust!
Comment is about LUST (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Without being too partisan it was very illuminating reading all the comments on this tricky subject. Very emotive obviously , but I will carp back on to my own experiences of being taken completely for granted as a musician (there is a difference between a pro band player and "a performer". The band world is more like being a cog in a wheel as opposed to being "out front."
The sort of bands I was in were booked mostly on corporate events where an agent would take a massive cut on top , the bandleader again a large slice and the rest of the money shared out. A living, shall we say.
My ignorance of the poetry scene is my weakness , so rather than slam for or against any arguments, I simply try to observe the ebb and flow of what happens in the world. There are many amateurs in the music game now, having taken the lion's share due to working cheap.
Am I bitter? not really, as I am now retired and try to face up to reality. I read at open mike nights and have found a great freedom in this. So please forgive my selfishness in not siding either way.
Comment is about Don't Pay The Poets (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
<Deleted User> (8659)
Tue 13th Oct 2015 09:20
I was once criticised by the organiser of an event (who'd asked me if I would 'Come and give us some of your poetry, I keep getting people asking me to put you on') because I asked about the money. He told me I shouldn't even think about doing it for money, poetry should be free.
So I told him that I would certainly do it for free-but only alonside other unpaid performers, at an event where the organiser charged no admission, for an audience comprised of those who also worked for free, in a venue which was built for free and powered by energy which was freely given by the utility companies.
The response; 'That's just being unrealistic' !
Comment is about Don't Pay The Poets (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
stu,
thank you for writing this.
we suffer the same maladies. all artists are hyper-sensitive to the turmoil happening all around the everything, and through our compulsion to create we reach out in our condition to discover others. it's the cycle of 'read, be read, connect, reconnect' in love, in hate, forever and ever amen.
i'll be sharing this.
Comment is about Poetry and Mental Health (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
We were talking about the Ted Hughes film after the Marsden poetry jam yesterday, Cynthia. I've just watched it tonight on catch-up. Fascinating programme. I didn't realise what a hard time it was for him in the 70s particularly. And Frieda Hughes recounting how she got the syllabus for her O-level, and found both her parents on it. I don't know if you saw this wonderful piece that Cathy Bryant wrote on the 50th anniversary of Sylvia Plath's death two years ago http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=34328. Write Out Loud remains very proud to have published it.
Comment is about Biography of Ted Hughes shortlisted for £20,000 prize (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Although talking of value in a broader sense this did remind me of Wendy Cope's 'Engineers' Corner'
https://tuitalk.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/tuesday-poem-engineers-corner-by-wendy-cope/
Comment is about Don't Pay The Poets (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Steven Waling
Thu 15th Oct 2015 11:27
Good question. I always thought there was.
Comment is about Rhymes, Rock & Revolution: the story of performance poetry (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman