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Life in the Subjunctive Mood. From Apollinaire's Calligrammes. In July 2009, I began to explore mixing images with words, doing my own form of visual poetry, or VisPo. Visual poetry is a form of poetry that’s meant to be seen, where words and images perform a dialogue with each other and with the reader to make meaning. I wrote a short introduction to visual poetry for WoPoWriMo. Giving examples of different forms of modern visual poetry: “ Visual Poetry. Leave one →. May 25, 2011 11:00 am. You are comme...
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The Idle Pen: December 2011
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Thursday, 22 December 2011. Robin Robertson reads At Roane Head - video. My favourite poet :). Thanks to Fiona for finding this. Posted by Big mamma frog. Links to this post. Labels: reading at Roane head. Wednesday, 21 December 2011. I signed up a while ago to this. Got the message today - I have homework! To be posted up by Jan 2nd (although there is room for leniancy apparently). Someone remind me why I do courses. Posted by Big mamma frog. Links to this post. Tuesday, 13 December 2011. Finally the ma...
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The Idle Pen: June 2011
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Sunday, 19 June 2011. Yesterday and today: Matthew Barton. Posted by Big mamma frog. Links to this post. Saturday, 18 June 2011. The Bliss of Solitude. The family are away (of course I shall miss them.well, a bit) so I have a whole week of writing and writing summer school to myself. Perhaps I will use the time to write the last 60 lines of poetry required for my portfolio. Or perhaps I'll spend the week drinking undrinkable wine and passing out on the sofa with the dog in front of re-runs of Glee. Write...
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The Idle Pen: October 2011
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Friday, 21 October 2011. TS Eliot Prize Readings at the Southbank Centre 15 January 2012. TS Eliot Prize Readings at the Southbank Centre, Sunday 15 Jan 2012, 7pm. The T S Eliot Prize Readings herald a brilliant year of poetry at Southbank Centre. Join us to experience the best poetry of the last 12 months, with the shortlisted poets reading their work live, introduced by Ian McMillan, poet and presenter of BBC Radio 3's The Verb. In association with the Poetry Book Society.". 10% off before December.
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The Idle Pen: March 2011
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Tuesday, 8 March 2011. Science and the Shabby Curate of Poetry. When I find myself in the company of scientists I feel like a. Shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing-room. The true men of action in our time, those who transform the. World, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists. Unfortunately, poetry cannot celebrate them, because their deeds. Are concerned with things, not persons and are, therefore, speechless.". Quoted at the beginning of. Posted by Big mamma frog.
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The Idle Pen: September 2012
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Wednesday, 5 September 2012. Some are almost unbelievable. Posted by Big mamma frog. Links to this post. Tuesday, 4 September 2012. Between Darwin's 'tree of life' sketch:. An elderberry branch after removing berries to make wine). Posted by Big mamma frog. Links to this post. Monday, 3 September 2012. Stroke Association - 20 Anthology - submissions wanted. Http:/ pollysworda.wordpress.com/stroke-association-20-anthology/. Posted by Big mamma frog. Links to this post. Saturday, 1 September 2012. Hidden P...
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The Idle Pen: NaPoWriMo
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Tuesday, 10 April 2012. No, I'm not joining in, though was tempted. But NaPoWriMo is kicking up a lot of interesting blogs. For example 100poetryforms. Or the poetry form 'The Abnominal',. Invented by Andrew Philip. All these are the poetic equivalent of a foot spa for tired words and thought processes. Posted by Big mamma frog. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). National Poetry Writing Month. World Poetry Writing Month. Write words: count the frequency usage of phrases in your work. 3WW Week No. 495.
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The Idle Pen: September 2011
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Sunday, 25 September 2011. To go, or not to go. Last week I received a phone call. It was a member of staff calling from East Barnet Library. My first response was. Well I'm pretty sure I owe my local library a huge fine for overdue library books but East Barnet Library? A bit out of my way. The gentleman said 'Did you enter a poetry competition at East Barnet Library? Can you remember the name of the poem you entered? Would it have been called "Lifting the lid"? Er Did someone say. Read out my poem.
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The Idle Pen: April 2012
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Tuesday, 10 April 2012. No, I'm not joining in, though was tempted. But NaPoWriMo is kicking up a lot of interesting blogs. For example 100poetryforms. Or the poetry form 'The Abnominal',. Invented by Andrew Philip. All these are the poetic equivalent of a foot spa for tired words and thought processes. Posted by Big mamma frog. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). National Poetry Writing Month. World Poetry Writing Month. Write words: count the frequency usage of phrases in your work.
