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Thursday, October 29
The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog...
by
Charles Christian
on Thu 29 Oct 2009 03:14 PM GMT
 The Poetry Trust is offering a two-for-one ticket offer for two fantastic events taking place during the 21st Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 6 - 8 November 2009. To book your discounted tickets call the Box Office on 01728 687110 and quote ‘Cut Offer’.
TWO FOR ONE: FAMILY READING: JOHN HEGLEY - FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER, JUBILEE HALL, 6.00 – 7.00PM, £6 adults/£4 (under 16s)
The hugely entertaining and fabulously funny John Hegley is one of the country's best-loved poet/performers . An hour of songs, poems and joining in's for all ages is promised as John reflects on insects, people and potatoes. The Observer says ‘John Hegley is to potatoes what Wordsworth has been to daffodils’. The evening begins with a short and always endearing reading by the winners of the Suffolk Young Poets Competition.
TWO FOR ONE: PETER BLEGVAD IN PERFORMANCE - SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER, JUBILEE HALL, 5.45 – 6.30PM, £6
Cult-cartoonist and successful singer-songwriter Peter Blegvad will provide a musical interlude during the annual Aldeburgh weekend of words. Described as a veritable mix of Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Leonard Cohen, Loudon Wainwright III and Tom Waits this is a rare chance to hear him solo and acoustic. Peter Blegvad is also the genius behind the Independent on Sunday cartoon creation Leviathan which entertained readers throughout the 90s. You can expect the same surreal wit, pathos and entertainment from his cool tunes and sharp lyrics.
Saturday, October 24
If you are in Southend on Sunday...
by
Charles Christian
on Sat 24 Oct 2009 09:00 AM BST
 If you are in Southend (England) this coming Sunday (25 October) then catch the Sundown live word and music gig at The Alex on Alexandra Street (7:30 - 10:30pm) featuring, among other things, a storytelling session by IS&T editor Charles Christian. He's promising to debut a brand new tale. Which could be a good thing – or maybe not.
Thursday, October 22
IS&T editor to be Aldeburgh Poetry Festival blogger in residence
by
Charles Christian
on Thu 22 Oct 2009 09:02 PM BST
Ink Sweat & Tears editor Charles Christian (hey, that's me) is to be the Blogger in Residence during the upcoming Aldeburgh Poetry Festival (6-to-8 November). Join me as I journey through the irresistible small seaside town of Aldeburgh. What will I make of Philip Levine’s first UK appearance for 30 years? Will I be called upon to provide harmonic backing vocals to John Hegley’s droll reflections on life? How will I react to a visionary encounter with Geoffrey Hill, widely considered the most important English poet today? Will I spot (or be) the biggest cheat at the late night Poetry Quiz? And more importantly will I make it to the front of the legendary Aldeburgh Fish & Chip shop queue?
You can follow me on this blog + on The Poetry Trust's FaceBook Group + on Twitter @thepoetrytrust
Saturday, October 17
Editor's catch-up
by
Charles Christian
on Sat 17 Oct 2009 09:00 AM BST
Here's one of our periodic catch-ups on news and comment – normal service will be resumed tomorrow...
* You say haikai
With the traditional boundaries and definitions of haiku, senryu, tanka, tanka prose, haibun and even prose poetry starting to blur – well OK, there are still pedants out there lecturing on the sanctity of 5-7-5 – we're adopting the term haikai as a portmanteau term for all Japanese short form poetry. And as for the ongoing 'is a poem or is it prose' debate, we're grateful to IS&T contributor Larry Kimmel for this comment... "I've no problem with the designation prose poem." There are poems were lineation helps the poem, or, perhaps, helps the reader in seeing the structure of the poem, but sometimes, I believe, it is something of a toss-up between the prose format or the lined format. Also, sometimes hard to say if something is prose or poem. If I recall correctly, Borges, in an intro to one of his poetry collections, says that he sees little difference between prose and poems and hopes his readers will except the prose portions of the book as poems."
* Twittering haiku
Talking of haiku, we'd like to remind readers that a couple of IS&T contributors – Alexis Rotella and Rachel Green – now regularly publish new haiku on Twitter. Could can find them at, respectively, @mamasanta and @leatherdykeuk
Sunday, October 11
Adult content ?
by
Charles Christian
on Sun 11 Oct 2009 09:00 AM BST
We received an interesting email from a poet earlier this week saying "thank goodness for Ink Sweat & Tears as you appear to be the only publication prepared to publish adult content that touches upon disturbing material".
The writer goes on to say that "the poetry world regulates entry to its ranks via the hard-copy subscription magazines. Unfortunately, they have objections to my work, mainly the content, and say things like ‘the poem is well-written and entertaining, but does not have a place in this magazine due to its disturbing qualities’. I just can’t comply with their prevailing Sunday-School ethos."
We would just add that most of these hard-copy subscription magazines have fewer people read them in one year, than read this webzine in one week. Bring it on, we say. We don't subscribe to the Sunday-School ethos. We like poetry and prose that reflects the real world, where adults live and die, and make love and cry. – CC
Sunday, October 4
New chapbook by IS&T contributor
by
Charles Christian
on Sun 04 Oct 2009 07:40 PM BST
 Regular IS&T contributor Geoff Stevens has a new chapbook out – The Instability of Nitro-Cellulose – in the Last Chance before Bath-Time series. Goeff is holder of the Ted Slade Award 2009 for services to poetry and his poems have appeared in countless magazines in the UK and abroad. As editor of Purple Patch magazine, his judgement is exemplary, and it shows in this pocket size collection of 21 previously unpublished poems. Contact Bobby Parker (Editor of LCBB) for more information on bobzparker@hotmail.co.uk
Thursday, October 1
Ink Sweat readership hits new high
by
Charles Christian
on Thu 01 Oct 2009 11:02 AM BST
The readership of Ink Sweat & Tears has hit a new high with total page views for the month of September reaching 37,000 and our individual readership (measured as distinct URLs) now hitting over 8600 readers a week. A big thank you to all our readers – and to all our contributors, without whom none of this would be possible. And don't forget to tell everyone you know to visit the site.
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