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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Write Down Speak Up Love Where You Live Project – Blakesley Hall
On Saturday 22nd October the “Write Down Speak Up Love Where You Live” project visited Blakesley Hall, near Yardley in South Birmingham. Maggie Doyle, Kurly, Matt Windle, Laura Yates,Spoz, Dreadlock Alien and I visited, wrote some lines, and tried to … Continue reading
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November Poetry/ Spoken Word What’s On
Tuesday 1st November Night Blue Fruit, Taylor Johns Canal Basin, Coventry,8pm: Open mic, free in, Barry Patterson Hosts Thursday 3rd Fizz 9, Tythe Barn Polesworth Abbey,7.30pm, free in. From Dublin Afric McLinchley, Colm Scully, Jennifer Mathews plus open mic Thursday … Continue reading
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Lamplight
His world imploded into deep breaths As if incapable of taking enough air She stood there A shadowy figure under fragmenting light Incomplete Inert, passive, he sat She had seen him, he had seen her High boots, slender legs, long … Continue reading
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Where You Will Find Me Nov/Dec
Tuesday 1st November Night Blue Fruit Thursday 3rd Fizz 10, Polesworth Tuesday 8th Lichfield Poets, Cruck House Wed 9th Flying Donkeys, Voicebox, Derby Fri 11th Jo Bell, Walsall Library,1.30pm Mon 14th Birmingham Stanza Thur 17th Nov Go Wild/Lion Appeal POETRY … Continue reading
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Hit the Ode, Victoria PH, Birmingham
Organiser Bohdan Piesecki is a glutton for punishment. Not content with organising a seven nation dice slam a couple of weeks ago, he still found time to put on the regular monthly Hit the Ode. As usual, it did not … Continue reading
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The Aston Hall Collection
Aston Hall Chestnuts Grand avenue A mile long colonnade Such grandeur and flat bread in a Nutshell Great hall Roaring fireplace Hosting nobility Impressing Kings in a room and A half Staircase Shattered fragments Blown by Parliaments force Munitions and … Continue reading
The Man Who Wore Tweed meets The Girl in Floral Prints
Amy Rainbow wrote the first poem, to which I replied.”The Man Who Wore Tweed” is included in Amy’s excellent collection “Poems of the Unrequited” and is available via her website. You should buy a copy – she made me! http://www.amyrainbow.co.uk/ … Continue reading
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