Turquoise Monster

It’s World Poetry Day – I napped and had a lucid dream – I made it the poem.

1. Take one apathetic, peaceful, book-loving student body intent on learning

2. Tenderise with cuts and broken promises

3. Optionally add agent provocateur/thug type – this speeds the reaction but is not necessary due to using the kettling technique – guaranteed to bring anyone to a slow violent boil

4. Sprinkle in a portion of police – ill-equipped and vulnerable causing the trigger happy reactions that seem justified – adds flavour

5. Leave to simmer with the odd bit of bait/sacrificial target to get the crowd proving

6. Knead in naive youth quick to follow the flow – after it swells to double the size – bash it down

7. Season with paparazzi to bring out the ‘incite to violence for the perfect photo’ flavour

8. Add a match and Voila! The Social Flambe – Riot

9. Garnish by only reporting the juciest politically-approved bits to the general public

10. Serve piping hot and full of bias and lies

I am not a Yummy Mummy
I find the concept funny
My baby is NOT a fashion accessory
And not simply cos I don’t have the money

I am not a Shut Up And Watch TV Mummy
I try not to junk fill the tummy
My kids are not disregarded so I can party
Or dress up tarty

I am not an Eyes On The Prize Mummy
I’ve got a part in a movie SURRIZE! Mummy
A push and preen and pimp your kid Mummy

I’m not an Earth Mother Mummy
Making the kids eat whole foods and organic honey

I’m not an Ultra Thin Lets Go To The Gym Mummy

No I’m none of these
I’m WORSE

I’m an Urg! I’m tired and the kids are wired Mummy
A I’ve grown the veg, dug it but forgot it and burnt it Mummy
A lets go to Macky Dees so they can get to sleep Mummy

I’m a lets do homework and go to the park Mummy
An eek! opps! don’t worry about the mud Mummy
I’m a we don’t have a TV Mummy
So lets watch DVDs Mummy

A lets snuggle and read a story Mummy
But you’ve annoyed me so now I’m a shouty Mummy

I’m a scatty forget to make the lunch Mummy
A the washings ups not done cos playings to much fun Mummy

I’m a do your best and Oh WOW you won a prize Mummy
You didn’t? Never mind now don’t cry honey!

I’ a doughnut munching,
crisp crunching
but its ok
cos they’re homebakes
and it’s a Friday Mummy
A muddling through
A home bake mistakes
Opps!
I’ve burnt the cakes Mummy!

A just surviving but that’s ok
Cos you know what?
I’m always a cuddly, snuggly
MUMMY!

The WigglyPet Press ie us went to the local comic book convention in Cheltenham. The True Believers Comicbook Festival.

We took the baby yeti from The Little Book of Spoogy Poetry who was a little bit worried when it saw the pictures of itself!

We made a new book stack out of an old storage unit which we’ve covered in black silky material – I think it worked really well for all the Little Books of Poetry and zines 🙂

The comb bound Love: A Stranger Dream got photographed a lot and there is much interest in it being made into a proper books 🙂

We played – I am dressed as the Opronics Light Core of the Super Computer AI in my Punk’s Universe which is the comic book and novel stuff I do!

This warrior girl mistook Baby Yeti for some sort of ice creature – it was almost very nasty 😉

Yesterday I had an amazing time at Picocon, I didn’t get into any of the talks had amazing convos and met a few old friends. Hubby says there were people we’d met at other events including the Cheltenham and Bristol ones but I still have face blindness so apologies if I did not say hi! People seemed to love the steam punk stuff and I have ideas for more fantasy and cyber punk jewellery 🙂

With the wiggly pets I still have the er… parental barrier – so kids love them, kids want them, kids grab the book and beg to be allowed it (it cost £3) but parents always say no – always :/

Lastly I know some people are hacked off that we didn’t come to see them but we left the house at 5am and got home at almost 11 pm and only went to picocon there just was no spare capacity and even if we were just seeing people we couldn’t visit everyone on a whole weekend to london let alone squeezed in around a convention! (And I have been posting for weeks!!!! that I was going to be at Picocon so was kind of surprised how many people were surprised we were suddenly in London!).

For Scifi, horror, fantasy, steam punk, comic book, spec fic fans – picocon is a minute little event but punches well above it’s weight for pure awesome geekiness 😀

Tomorrow I will be at the Ok True Believers Comic Festival – I have 15 titles including the much loved Wiggly Pet Adventures, poetry zines and Winter’s Bloom. The new one which I am still binding into shape as we speak is my illustrated non-linear concrete/visual poem about identity – A Stranger Dream – of which there are ten copies only and are colouring and painting safe. I will also have some original artworks with me 😀

Each year in February I run a poetry writing drive called WoPoWriMo – There are tutorials and how to material on the WoPo site and a pinterest board called WoPo Inspired for those who work best from visuals.

I’ll be organising meet ups in my local area and posting in the Facebook group. Good Luck.

On the 20th of February we will be at Pico-con, a little micro (or pico) convention for sci-fi, fantasy etc… it is organised by the scifi library at Imperial College which is where I did my undergraduate studies.

I am quiet excited about returning 🙂 Especially to pico con last time I went I was using a walking stick and feeling old this time I am not.

I’ll be taking an assortment of poetry zines, wiggly pets including the little figurines I make and my steam punk and fantasy jewellery ranges.

Obviously my scifi writing is the main emphasis but there will be poetry there too!

I have insomnia at the moment why do I have insomnia? Because I’ve reached project tipping over point – I am currently working in a conceptual art piece about the self identity and relationships an society it is a visual poem – illustrated piece the us non-linear. I am also representing it as a colouring book and launching it at the comic book festival in Cheltenham feb the 6 th and am also wondering about sneaking it into picocon with scifi and horror stuff – this is why I have insomnia.

I am in a quandary – when I ink this in should the background be solid black or made up of cracks?