I am taking part in NaPoWriMo again this year (and I even remembered to actually sign up for once!). This is of course my third poetry writing challenge this year!
So I am going to be making some more of my little visual poetry booklets – one a day 🙂
I will generally be doing the 1 hr min of poetry stuff a day instead of just going oh looky I’ve completed the challenge.
I may do some electronic type visual poems as well.
So I have been learning the guitar for the last couple of years and I am in love with the series Firefly and it’s theme tune The Ballad of Serenity. The series is basically a space western type thingy. I’ve made my own version of the song – it’s sort of come out sounding PJ Harvey-esk :/
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!).
We collect sticks
We are refugees
We walk miles to make charchole
We are employed to carry heavy sacks
We are hungry and care not what’s legal
We need fuel ourselves
We are hoping to feed our children
We are stopped
We fear
We are pushed to the ground
We know what comes next
We are not rapped this time
We just beg for mercy held at gun point
We taste the earth
We are told off
We cry, they fine us
We have no way to pay
We are released but now we can not cook our food
We are dying a slow death
We have no money, no future, no hope
We are the women of the Congo
I am currently in the middle of trying to make a booklet for a physical run of the Ballads of the Scientifica – a collection of poems about science, plus one story and a song. When I initially released it free last year it only had ten poems but that number has grown a bit so I feel there is enough to warent a physical CD.
I am also re-recording some of it as it was done in quiet a rush.
The reason for this was that I did it for Science and Engineering week which I didn’t find out about until it was almost upon us!
This event is coming up once again and I have put together an exhibition of Science-Art which will be up in Centre-Arts in Cheltenham from the 15-23 March.
It is obviously mostly visual but there is a sound panel with sounds from ESA and Bristol University and sundry others. There is a poem by Marcus Moore done for the Wetlands Trust and copies of my award winning Celestial Montage poem and picture mix. The sloan digital sky serve and Galaxy Zoo have provided the means to write in galaxies and so on!
It is all very exciting and you will no doubt be hearing more on it.
Another February gone and a note book full of poems it has wrought. I have a lot of editing a head of me as I always do after such writing challenges.
I want to let the poems I’ve not popped on here (of which there are alot from various workshops and writing meet-ups I went too/organised, mature. I like to leave poems to ‘cook’ for awhile – I mentioned this too another writer earlier in the month and she has been quoting me throughout the social networks 🙂
My poetry focus for March is going to be The Little Book of Easter Poetry which I made into an audio book last year – I might re-record some bits and turn it into a download as well as getting a physical copy for people to be able to buy etc… But more on that later (hopefully).
So my poetry pen is now down until April for NaPoWriMo – unless something amazing spikes my poetry gland 🙂
A raw WoPo poem:
A gem, telling of treasures forgotten
A life of adventure and struggles
Gilded in dust of seasons past
Memories caress, loves and hates
Delicious swirl
Darkening to a none existant mist
A fading time in mouldering draps
Cobwebs obscure the light
A raw WoPo poem:
A whole, a sphere, a loop and circle
Harmonic resonance of self
Contained an existence
Eternity within
Nothing and evrything
A raw WoPo poem:
Universal glow of mind
Bathing the heart
Long lasting
The ebb and flow
A lick of energy for the soul
Over flowing
The vitality of existence
As part of a New Years creative challenge I said I would send something I had created to the first 5 people who commented with the idea that they would do the same 🙂
The first piece I have handed over is a Inspira Jar – a concept I sort of dreamed up whilst working out writing exercises. The idea is that you decorate a jar and then through out the year fill it with those odd ideas or phrases or inspirational things you come across. At the end of the year you have a good collection of things to start writing, drawing, creating with.
This one was made specifically with a student writer in mind 🙂
Passion and Adventure
Self publish with confidence
lucrative novel deal after blog
Country Walking
EXPERT!
Sci-fi writers of the future
anthology
Don’t forget
Short stories
And another thing…
Well done
Bookend
Writing opportunities
More on the process of making these jars at Salaric Craft.