Archive for May, 2012

Slamming

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

At the weekend I took part in the Site Festival Slam in Stroud – it was held in a lovely little venue hidden down a side ally that I didn’t even know existed. I was very very nervous – but Marcus Moore greeted me in a friendly way and soon familiar faces from poetry readings […]

Stroud Site Festival Slam

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

I will be performing in my first ever slam tomorrow Friday 25th of May 2012 at the Stroud Site Festival Slam run by Marcus Moore and Sara-Jane Arbury. Though I have done lots of poetry readings, including performance poetry pieces and even run workshops on poetry, I am finding this a bit scary due to […]

International Day Against Homophobia

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Today is the International Day Against Homophobia – I was already working on this poem in light of all the gay marriage stuff going around. I wish I could have included more people in the poem but it was becoming unwieldy. For Those For those who would deny the Homosexual marriage Let all endevours of […]

Monster Creation

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

I took a video of my husband helping me with the cards for the monster writing game and made a silly video out of it. I have a bamboo flute I picked up at a festival which I used to create the background music.

Visual Poetry Fail

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

I didn’t quiet make it with the challenge of producing 30 visual poetry cards in April – I was just too busy! But I am not far off so am trying to finish them off this month 🙂 I have also finally unpacked my vispo journal which I want to work on once more. That […]