An all time fave – just found this vid on youtube and I LOVE it
Month: May 2009
Don’t Give a Damn
This song has been going around and around and around my head of late. Love it!
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All Quiet
Not much to report on the Nik front, really. I’ve managed to get all the post launch errands done which has left me free (well, as of Thursday afternoon) to write which has been a real treat. It’s been good to get back into it.
Stuff (Including poetry pics and the problem with my brain)
20 Photos & 20 Stories Launch
Me signing – photo by Jo Belfield
As we sit here similar but different
With our own assigned places and roles.
Put here together
We observe each domestic incident and event,
Rising to the task, providing comfort and sustenance.
Often we bubble along – contentedly simmering,
Or we clash loudly,
Bumping each other, vying for room.
Sometimes we are steamy, fiery to the touch.
We spit and jerk, jolt and burn,
Volatile vessels of anger and noise.
But always there is quiet at the end of the day,
Intimate in the knowledge of each other’s dents and curves,
Content in our places, me Kettle, and you Pot.
Books From People In The Book
If you were at the launch last night you’d have heard (as well as some wonderful readings) me mentioning the contributors to the 20 Photos 20 Stories book were both local writers and professional authors; you’d also have heard me mention said authors’ books by name. But you’d have also been very excited by the quality of the readings and might, in the excitement, not have remembered the titles of those books.
Quick Post
Just a very quick post to let you all know that last night’s launch for the photo book was fab. Lots of brilliant work read brilliantly. And I got to chat with some really lovely people too. I’ll blog in more detail about it soon, once I’ve done my chores and once I have photos and things.
Musical Interlude
Thanks to the super Sarah Salway for this. It’s brill, and will give those not out in the sun something to listen to while I’m out setting up for tonight’s reading/launch, and getting nervous about it.
Pub + Poems = Fun
I went to an event of Jo Bell’s last night and it was brilliant.
THIS IS IMPORTANT
Salt are an incredibly good publisher of short story and poetry collections. Incredibly good. And they’re dedicated to forms (ie short stories and poems) that are often overlooked.