‘Poems While You Wait’
‘Poems While You Wait’ - a project to get a 100 high-quality poetry posters up in Leeds hospital waiting rooms organised by Char March, writer-in-residence in Leeds Teaching Hospitals 2007/08. Click on the link to see the posters, then click on any poster for an enlarged view. Mine’s about half-way down and is one of my ‘lighter’ poems. There’s a bit more about that on the poster.
Janine Pinion
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Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre - Weekly Poem service
Poetry in your inbox : Oxford Brookes’ Poetry Centre has launched a new initiative: a Weekly Poem. Its aim is to bring contemporary poetry to a wider audience by emailing a weekly poem direct to peoples’ inboxes. The participating presses range from the smaller and newer to the larger and more established, providing access to a range of new poetry and voices: Anvil Press, Bloodaxe, Cinnamon, Enitharmon, Heaventree Press, Landfill, Peterloo Poets and Salt Publishing. Details and sign up to get a new poem each week by clicking on the link above.
This is the poster I produced for ‘World In One City’ at Eggspace 1-26 May 2008. All contributors based their posters on song lyrics which included a city - my chosen song was ‘Barcelona’ (Freddy Mercury). I’ve never been to Barcelona, so I read the lyrics and took that as the starting point - a love story; and I used a photo I took at Tower Grounds, New Brighton, in the evening. A bit of Paintshopping using layers, and voila…!
The opening last night was vibrant and interesting - great to meet other designers and get into a bit of geek speak, as well as meeting old friends.
Click on the image for a link to Eggspace.
Reading at Liverpool Costa Poetry Cafe
Next Monday - 14th April (7.30pm start) Costa in Bold St hosts another evening of poetry. I will be reading at this open mic event, so come along and bring a poem to read. The Cafe events have been a valuable addition to Liverpool’s poetry scene for ‘08 and worth supporting. Click on the link for further details of events.
Wirral BookFest
I will be reading at Hoylake Library 7pm Fri 11 April as part of Wirral Bookfest. The event features Wirral-based poets from Liverpool Dead Good Poets Society, including Clare Kirwan and Adam Khan.
Taken from Liverpool Anglican Cathedral Rooftop Monday 7 April 2008
“ ONE STEP FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK is a response to our increasingly secularised world of global economy where material growth supersedes spiritual growth. Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy, the piece will respond uniquely to the host venue’s interior, whilst looking externally to the City beyond, asking the question: What is Paradise?
dreamthinkspeak | One Step Forward, One Step Back
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“ all those romantic notions you have of absinthe spoons, manic episodes and Kerouac-like rambling on a long roll of butcher paper really aren’t operative. Creative work is mostly showing up every day and enduring a million tiny failures as you feel your way to something a bit new.
Working In Close | 43 Folders