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Friday, November 6
Its day one in the Poetry Festival house...
by
Charles Christian
on Fri 06 Nov 2009 06:03 PM GMT
 More from the Aldeburgh festival front. We've sung happy birthday – eaten cake – and have full evening ahead – including the notorious festival quiz. Last night I actually overheard someone complaining that there had been cheating at last year's quiz. To think, poets cheat to win prizes. More pictures to follow.
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Update #2
by
Charles Christian
on Fri 06 Nov 2009 12:14 PM GMT
 More news from the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival... Last night (Thursday) saw the official launch reception (great wine and nibbles btw) at the Peter Pears Gallery. This was a 3-in-1 event as it also included a preview of Peter Blegvad's Poetic Polydidsia & Other Pictures – Peter is The Poetry Trust's commissioned illustrator for 2009. And, the official book launch of Herbert "Bertie" Lomas' new collection A Casual Knack of Living – Bertie also gave a short reading of some selected pieces, including a poem written as a challenge to find words that rhyme with 'turd' – there's an awful lot of them, although some are a little absurd. Here are some random pix from the reception...  Poetry Trust director Naomi Jaffa welcoming everyone.  Some of Peter Blegvad's illustrations  Herbert Lomas signing copies of his latest collection.  The reception – poet Pascale Petit among others pictured  Poet and all-round Poetry Trust creative whiz Dean Parkin  Poet and festival founder Michael Laskey, among others Thursday, November 5
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Update #1
by
Charles Christian
on Thu 05 Nov 2009 10:56 AM GMT
Here's a link to the latest edition of The Poetry Trust's Stuff e-newsletter – TPT are the people behind this weekend's Aldeburgh Poetry Festival www.thepoetrytrust.org/stuff/category/november-2009/ Wednesday, November 4
Following us on Twitter
by
Charles Christian
on Wed 04 Nov 2009 09:00 AM GMT
Because the Twitter account we use – @ChristianUncut – is a mixture of business and pleasure, to make it simpler to follow us, we are will be adding the #IS&T hash-tag to all our poetry and prose related postings. And if you don't know or care what hash-tags are, don't worry, you can live without them.
And, talking of Twitter – don't forget that from the end of this week Charles Christian will be blogging and tweeting on the 21st Aldebugh Poetry Festival, which takes place in Suffolk (England) on 6-to-8 November. We'll be blogging here on Ink Sweat but tweeting to @thepoetrytrust Monday, November 2
Ink Sweat hits another traffic record
by
Charles Christian
on Mon 02 Nov 2009 09:00 AM GMT
October was yet another good month for Ink Sweat & Tears visitor traffic, hitting a new high of 10,600 readers (defined as unique addresses served) and a total of 43,000 page views. Once again, many thanks.
Sunday, November 1
Purple Patch announces its 'Best of 2009 Poetry' lists
by
Charles Christian
on Sun 01 Nov 2009 06:56 PM GMT
The annual Purple Patch Small Press Poetry Bests have now been announced for 2009 by Purple Patch magazine's publisher (and Ink Sweat & Tears contributor) Geoff Stevens
PURPLE PATCH SMALL PRESS BEST OF 2009 LISTS (2008 places in brackets) Best UK Small Press Magazines of the Year Poetry Scotland no.60 (6) Sarasvati no.3 Carillon 24 The Journal #26 (12=) Global Tapestry #31 (10=) Poetic Licence 29 (2) Handshake 75 Envoi 151 9= First Time 56 9= Reach 131 (12=) 11=Ambit 195 11= Southlight 4 13=Quarry no.7 13=Quarry no.8 13=Carillon 23 16=Mslexia 38 16=The Coffee House no.10 Poetry Cornwall 25 19=The Journal 24, 25; The Ugly Tree 20 19=Carillon 22 UK Best Small Press Poets of the Year 1. K.V.Skene 2. Henry Blake 3. Norman Bissett 4. Joanna Ezekiel 5. Bobby Parker 6. David Eyre 7. Paul Tanner 8. Michael Newman 9= Terry Quinn (12=) 9= Neil Leadbeater(12=) 11=Gordon Scapens (12=) 11= Steve Sneyd 14= Ken Champion, Kate Edwards, Robin Ford, Peter Faulkner, Peter Johnson, C.Despardes Gerald Zipper, Pat Jourdan and Graham Fulton Best Overseas Small Press Poets of the Year (new category) A.D. Winans Kyle Lewis Lyn Lifshin Jude Dillon 5 Dave Newman 6 B.Z. Niditch 7= Robert M.Zoschke 7= T. Kilgore Sprake 9= Tyson Schroeder 9= Ruth Moon Kemper 9= Kirkor N.Der Hohannesian Best Individual Collections of the Year The Wrong Jarrow by Tom Kelly (Smokestack Books) For The Living Dead by Eric Greinke (Free Books, Lowell, USA) Poems For The Disenchanted by Henry Blake (Henry Blake) Verses From The Crematorium by Henry Blake (Henry Blake) Piercing The Darkness by Norman Bissett (Poetry Monthly Press) Singular by Eleanor Dent (Indigo Dreams Publishing) 7= Listening For Light by Ken Head (Poetry Monthly Press) 7= Third Wish Wasted by Roddy Lumsden (Bloodaxe) 7= Dreamer In A Cold Climate by Tom Kelly (Red Squirrel Press) 10 Salvador Dali Paints Juliet by Wendy Webb(Indigo Dreams Press) 11 A Tapestry of Absent Sitters by Alan Morrison (Waterloo Press) 12= Songs For Lesser Gods by Lesley Quayle (erbacce-press) 12= Vincent Van Gogh Would Love Your Mum by Bobby Parker (last chance before bathtime publications) Corfu Holiday Poems Galore by Simon Robson (Grosvenor Road Books) Dead Cat Bounce by Richard Warren (White Elephant Press) Reading Lesson in the Lifers’Wing by F.J.Williams (Peterloo Poets) This 7 Year Old Walks Into A Bar by Gill O’Halloran (Indigo Dreams Press) The Way Of The Dance by Ronnie Goodyer (Indigo Dreams Press) Lovelines by Tom Kelly (Red Squirrel Press) 20= Science & Magic by Richard Warren (White Elephant Press) 20= Walayat Deko by Khadim Hussain (Mudfog) 20= If by Peter Day (Poetry Monthly Press) Best Anthologies of 2009 1969 And All That Ed.Pete Presford (Malfunction Press) Ink, Sweat & Tears www.ink-sweat-and-tears.com – hoorah, that's us Irish Lifelines Ed. Eamer O’Keeffe (London Irish Women’s Centre) Subterranean Homesick Yorkshire Blues (Indigo Dreams Press) and again last night (Indigo Dreams Press) Get It by Onya Wick (Cestrian Press) Trouble Swapped For Something Fresh Ed.Rupert Loydell (Salt) Norfolk Poets and Writers Ed.Wendy Webb (Wendy Webb Books)(3) Waves 2009 (Soc. of Civil &Public Service Workers)(5) The Exhibitionists (Stairwell Books) Best Overseas Magazines of the Year Chiron Review no.85 (USA) Chiron Review no.87 Chimera no.7 (France) The Moon vol.7 no.7 (USA) The Moon vol.7 no.9 The Moon vol.7 no.8 Labour of Love no.32 (Canada) (3) 8= Labour of Love no.31 8= People Cant Drive (USA) Waterways vol.29 no. 10 (USA) (4) 11= Litspeak 24 (Germany) 11= Waterways vol.29 no.s 7,8. 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 |
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