Geek street feel the beat Of fingers tapping not the feet Geek street Where programmers meet Turn out coding neat Even when some still use l33t spk That algorithm needs a tweak Seek the answers on Geek Street Better than star fleet Is completing the feet of debugging by the pants of your seat The […]
Last year I had a great time at the first Poetry Slam to be held in Cirencester. It was organised by the fab Marcus Moore and Sara-Jane Arbury and was lots of fun. Of course I did not score very high but that is not why I go to them – this was my third […]
Thursday the 12th of July last year saw me at the Grain Barge performing geek poetry, throwing knitting and inflicting my sense of humour on people. It took me a while to remember to post it! But it was an epic night and I did pop it up on my personal blog before but thought […]
In April I went and performed in my fourth ever poetry slam – this time it was War of the Words at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. As typified by the other slams I came last but I am happy as I performed my best yet in my opinion. I did my poem Shy about selective […]
Saturday 20th April 2013 will see me taking part in the Cheltenham Poetry Festival Slam! It takes place at Copa in Cheltenham and is £7 or £5 for concessions. I am desperately trying to memorise some newer poems for this! If anybodies about came and see some fantastic poets (not me the other guys!).
Here is a program on poetic sign language – not poetry translated into sign but rather composed within the sign language bringing the poetry into a graceful moment of movement as well as the beauty of words. It is another level.
I am planning to stat submitting more poetry, I had a good success rate last year but I also submitted only a few pieces and I want to up that. I decided once before that I was bored with submitting so stopped and started this blog but I feel ready to start again. The issue […]
I have create an audio book / album of various festive stuff – so that is poems from The Little Book of Festive Poetry, a story about a little mouse called Percival’s Christmas Wish and a song, not to mention some actual sleigh bells! Sarah’s Christmas Collection by Sarah Snell-Pym Unfortunately Bandcamp have decided the […]
I had a great time and even founf these lovely little knit poem things on the trees and bolards around the Lit Fest but I did not get through to the finals of the Cheltenham Literature Festival All Star Slam. Infact I think I probable was the second or third lowest score. I did the […]
I’m taking part in the qualifier event for the All Star Slam at the Cheltenham Litrature Festival. This is my second actual slam though obviously I have done lots and lots of poetry readings. I am quiet nervous and seeing who I am up against I doubt I will make it to the evening event […]