Peter Ashworth Head of Culture and Leisure for Stockport Council will be coming to our next meeting on the 12th November.

He will be giving a ten minute talk on the present cut-backs and will gladly answer any questions the group might have.

The theme for the night will be what does the Art Gallery mean to you!

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Original item by Greg Freeman

Glad you're coming to Cadence! :)

And thanks for reminding me re the xmas bash - I have just this second booked off the day after haha :D I usually forget and have to try and get through a day in work feeling like death-from-hangover :D

See thee in Tyldesley! Have fun tonight :)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Wonderful.I love the turnpike

As speed becomes more accurate, position just gets worse - I'm thinking Theo Walcott.

A world of ten dimensions of space and one of time - the one line in the poem that is not so smooth.

The capable creation - hmmm, I think you could do better than that.

Comment is about Omniverse (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Thanks, fellas.
I dunno, Greg, whatever did happen to Augusta Darling? I know Wendy Darling. She has lots of nice houses.
I'm not that keen on the last 3 verses to be honest, Dave. I must use the last verse because I like the jungle/dunghill rhyme, but I need to rework it somehow.

Comment is about Sky Garden (blog)

Original item by Ray Miller

Hi Cathy

Thank you for your comments. I like the way you write that my heart had a word with your heart.

Much appreciated!

Ally

x

Comment is about Cathy Crabb (poet profile)

Original item by Cathy Crabb

Fantastic!
I love the capitals and brackets lines.
Also the next verse is brilliant.
The last verse is my least favourite.
I think the poem would stand up without it.
(IMO ha ha)
But let that not detract...
Dave

Comment is about Sky Garden (blog)

Original item by Ray Miller

Thanks for your comment on Small Talk, Sid. Yes I think I will probably tweek that now line - probably just get rid of the word - I'll see how I feel after performing it tonight.

I see you've been scribbling again - will take a peek when I'm feeling more up to critique - leaving comments can be quite a draining process when you really think about what you are writing.

Comment is about Ray Miller (poet profile)

Original item by Ray Miller

Brilliant!

Comment is about Omniverse (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Oh - what a shame! And John Coopey's going to be there! I don't know much about the Tyldesly thing - I'll have to ask Jeff about it. I'm going to something he's doing on Saturday, so I'll see. Crumbs - it'll be December before I see you otherwise! Take care anyway - and make sure you save enough dosh to make the Christmas bash! x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

And not just writing any old guff, it's quality writing :) Nice one.

Nah, not going tonight - combination of skintness, and being a tad hungover ;) Am blaming that on Obama celebrations and having Bob's son round for tea last night ;D

Shame I won't be able to see these being performed. Are you coming to the Tyldesley thing that Jeff's doing? It's on 23rd November at the Cadence cafe. You could do the new ones :)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hmmm...yeh. I would go with the upper part being neat and the lower shambolic though - and that's NOT just me being contrary! ;)

Comment is about Bubble (blog)

Chris,
Thanks for your comment on Compy Dompy.
Sorry it took so long to get back.
Dave

Comment is about Chris Co (poet profile)

Original item by Chris Co

Hi Margaret,
Thanks for comment on Compy Dompy from way back.
Dave

Comment is about Margaret Holbrook (poet profile)

Original item by Margaret Holbrook

Hola Dave

Hey thanks :) Glad you enjoyed it. Was an absolutely cracking day - shame you couldn't be there. Next year!

Comment is about Dave Carr (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Carr

Behind every successful man, there is a woman, but behind every successful woman is there a man ?

Comment is about Obama wins with a little bit of help from his female following (blog)

Original item by hugh

Thanks for your comments Laura - yes it's a relief for me to be able to write again - I was starting to go stagnant performing the same old...

Never worry about not commenting. There is so much stuff on here it can be overwhelming to comment on them all. Hope to see you tonight. x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Thanks for your generous comment on Compy Dompy. Sorry it took me so long to get back.
Dave

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Sorry to hear you won't be with us tonight Dave - we'll miss you! I'm also hoping your surgery isn't owt serious. If your man flu's anything to go by, it's probably an in growing toe nail and we don't need to worry too much about next month ;) x - and another for your toe x

Comment is about Dave Carr (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Carr

Very sad but beautifully told.
Dave

Comment is about HEARTBREAK ETCHED IN STONE (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Perhaps those Tudor kind of streets could be neat shambolic - from the first floor up they are all over the place - but at street level they can be tidy?

Comment is about Bubble (blog)

Hi Laura,
Thanks for comment on Compy Dompy (ages ago I know)
Just found time to view your Diggers video.
Excellent
Dave

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Another new one! On a roooolllll!

Clever, succinct, very different from previous form. Good poem - enjoyed.

Took me years of self-tuition to learn small talk, as it goes. Couldn't understand how people opened their mouths and said...nothing.

Comment is about Small Talk (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Sorry it's taken me so long to comment on this - I saw it, meant to, then got busy with other stuff.

Anyhoooo - what a wonderful poem. Nice to see a new piece from you Is. Totally agree re performance making all the difference, but I can't fault the rhythm in here.

Comment is about Preparing Lamb (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Haha - oooo so cutting :D Love it. That intro's funny as owt too :D

Comment is about Posh Tramps (blog)

Original item by Cathy Crabb

Actually I think you should take all the previous ones down right now, and then post them back up, one per week.

Anthony's right - barely anyone will look at them now cos they're backed up into hyperlinks.

Your writing is interesting, and politically right up my street. Do us, and yourself, a huge favour, and put them up slowly and that way you'll get more exposure and the people reading them can ingest one at a time :)

Good performance piece this - enjoyed it, some killer lines

Comment is about I might look like a mortal man to you (blog)

Original item by Wez Jefferies

Unusual structure to this...can't help but think it may be improved visually by playing with the structure on the page, but as for the actual poem itself, nope - leave that. A beautiful poem sonically - I can hear it being read out. Very musical, lilting. Lots in there to tickle my curiosity, however the neat/shambolic jars a teeny bit.

Surplus apostrophe after 'breezes'?

Comment is about Bubble (blog)

Hi Katherine.
Thanks for comment on Compy Dompy.
Sorry for not getting back sooner.
I enjoyed Dedicated Follower of fashion.
Dave

Comment is about Katherine Shirley (poet profile)

Original item by Katherine Shirley

Hi Isobel.
Thanks for comment on Compy Dompy. Ages ago I know. Am recovering from surgery so can't make Tudor tonight. Gives me time to look at WOL though. Dave

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Another wonderful piece of writing Marianne - crafted and yet seemingly so easy

Comment is about Discipline (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Jampacked full of hugely evocative imagery - your writing is changing and flowing so fast these days, and this one seems to have more...what's the word...form?structure? It is less fluid/stream of cons whilst still holding onto the process that kicks it off. I know what I mean!!

Love it, fantastic piece. I read those first 3 verses in awe.

Comment is about Blue (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Hi Sid,
Had to look twice there - like the name -incognito in your Holt. Thanks for comment in another life. Dompy is to Compy as Dumpty is to Humpty. Whimsical I suppose.
Dave

Comment is about Ray Miller (poet profile)

Original item by Ray Miller

Thanks to all for comments on this. Seems ages ago. Been busy with family stuff.

Comment is about Compy Dompy (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Enjoyed the journey this took, Sid, and a very credible one it was, too. Your poetic style is confident and assured. Which reminds me, apropos of almost nothing ... whatever happened to Augusta Darling?

Comment is about Sky Garden (blog)

Original item by Ray Miller

Thank you :)

Comment is about Halloween Is Here (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

thank you!

Comment is about At the vets (blog)

Original item by fiona sinclair

Hey Laura,This is a great piece;esp love the third stanza with the references to 'coalition buzzword bingo,sign on and shout house'.Haha!Clever and funny!By the way,loved your performance at the John The Baptist gig.

Comment is about Brand New Lexicon (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Girl power to the rescue again!x

Comment is about Obama wins with a little bit of help from his female following (blog)

Original item by hugh

for the clouds now moving in - I'd have preferred summat clearer, simpler
now the clouds are moving in

I liked the poem, nice title.

Comment is about Small Talk (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Good one! In my youth, we called her "Nitty Nora...the bug explorer!" Take care, Tony.

Comment is about The nits are back ! (blog)

Original item by hugh

Pure poetry. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Avant-Garde Verse - The Last Rhyme (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

It's about...well...mmm...it....!....aaah...if you...oh shi...I think separation from something...yes that's it.

Comment is about Noetic-fret! (poet profile)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

John....You just crack me up!

Good one mate.

Comment is about Avant-Garde Verse - The Last Rhyme (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

thanks for the comments guys.

glad you like it.

i have now slightly re-edited the poem as can
be seen, but glad you liked it

Andy

Comment is about Migration (blog)

Original item by Andy N

I always find it tricky to comment on work that's obviously very personal and offers the audience only rudimentary clues as to the subject.

The "shambolic" streets and Minster suggest York, but I wouldn't dare to venture further.

Interesting . . .

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Bubble (blog)

I’m sure rhyme will “Not Fade Away” John. Don’t say “It’s All Over Now”, because “Time Is On My Side”, so don’t “Paint It Black.” Some free verse is surely acceptable, although often “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” from it – still, you’ve got to have some “Sympathy For The Devil” and “”You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” It’s like being between “A Rock And A Hard Place.” “What A Shame”, maybe we’re just “Out Of Time.” But I know you’re a “Street Fighting Man” John, and, in the end “It’s Only Rock And Roll” and WOL is just a “Beggars Banquet.” So let the free versers sit in their “Voodoo Longue” poking their keyboards with “Sticky Fingers” and constructing “Bridges To Babylon.” I’m quite happy to remain as an occasional rhymer, in “Exile On Main Street” – and just “Let It Bleed.”

(In respect of your poem/song - brilliant mate – and not a red wheelbarrow or UFO in sight!) :)

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Avant-Garde Verse - The Last Rhyme (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I don't think it will be somehow. Yet another cracking rip-off John.

Comment is about Avant-Garde Verse - The Last Rhyme (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

You put your finger on it there. Like waiting for a bus that will never turn up.

You have hit the nail on the head- and that is a good thing to do with an awful feeling- because your heart just had a word with my heart. X

Comment is about Waiting at the Door (blog)

Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

The Final Staging of The Pomedy Show UK Tour 2012 will be at Wolverhampton Arena Theatre on Friday November 9th @8pm...Be There !!!!!

Kindly Read and Circulate and be There to Celebrate...Thanks


PRESS RELEASE - NOVEMBER 2012

THE POMEDY SHOW UK TOUR 2012 - The POMEDY Show Returns to Wolverhampton Arena Theatre - Friday November 9th

POMEDY is an Eclectic Mix of Comedy and Poetry - With A Difference - Celebrating Jamaica's 50th Anniversary Event

UK POMEDY Tour 2012 - Tek Kin Teet Kibba Hart Bun - Laugh & Learn/ Celebrating Life With Laughter, Love & Learning

The very excitingly inspirational and hilarious POMEDY Show is an officially designated Jamaica 50th Anniversary event. It is is the brainchild of the internationally renown Jamaican Poet, Author and Reggae Artiste, Yasus Afari - Jamaica's Gift to the World.

POMEDY is an innovative and eclectic mix of real Jamaican Comedy and Poetry, celebrating laughter, love and learning for the entire family and community. The Pomedy Show skillfully blendss Jamaican humour, story telling, comedy and poetry to excite and inspire audiences to laugh and learn together in love and harmony, especially as we celebrate Jamaica's 50th Anniversary.

The POMEDY Show Returns to Wolverhampton Arena Theatre - Friday November 9th
The Pomedy Show had a very successfull World Premiere in Jamaica in 2009 and had its International Launch at London' outstanding Broadway Theatre in 2011. Based on the overwhelming response, The Pomedy Show has again returned to the UK featuring Yasus Afari, Ping Wing, Benjamin Zephaniah, Pink Panther, Marcia Calame and Jamaica's High Commissioner, Ambassador Aloun Assamba and a guest of honour.

On Friday November 9th The highly anticipated POMEDY Show returns to The Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Friday November 9th at 8pm.
The Show will feature Yasus Afari, Ping Wing, Marcia Calame,Pink Panther and special surprise guests.

Review is about THE POMEDY Autumn UK SHOW 2012 on 9 Nov 2012 (event)

Just joined up. Couldn't resist the lure of bogies. Here's a wee offering which I think I subtitled "Green is the colour of my true love's hair":

SNOTABOGIE

"Bogie!"
"Snot!"
"It is so a bogie."
"No it's snot."

Comment is about Your poems wanted for school’s poet tree (article)

Original item by Julian Jordon

Well, as you singled out Isobel and I as your favourites (so far) I guess I'm obliged to pass comment...

I find this poem a puzzle. I'm notoriously averse (hah!) to puzzling poetry...I prefer poems to be immediately accessible, at least in some way, and then reveal more with each reading. This certainly achieves that...and yet remains a puzzle to me.

I wonder where the neat, narrow, yet oxymoronically shambolic streets are? There's a Minster...?

Hope floats...

Some lovely language...and I'm going to have to keep returning to it like a crossword puzzle...darn....I hope I figure it out someday...

: )

Jx

Comment is about Bubble (blog)