Dear Bob,
RESULTS OF THE HAMMICK (BOOKSHOP) POETRY DAY PRIZE (LIVERPOOL)
"There were enough excellent entries to make a final decision very
difficult:
Highly Commended:
David Bateman; Jim Bennett; Tom George;
Cath Nichols; James Phillips; Gabby Tyrrell
And the three winners:
Philip Burton: ‘Blessed-fair Sonnet’
Louise V. Mulvey: ‘...Last Saturday, nineteen of us crammed...’
(1st line; no title)
Soumyen Maitra: ‘Celebration’
Can you sing, act, dance a little?
Only joking – but this is the place to be
for Comedy, Performance, Music & Poetry
LEFT BANK EVENINGS AT HAMMICKS BOOKSHOP
mc & organiser: Carole Baldock (Editor of Orbis)
The Wednesday Finale, November 27, 7-9pm
Tickets from Hammicks Bookshop (or pay on the door)
2a Borough Pavement, Grange Precinct, Birkenhead CH41 2XX; 649 1620
(couple of minutes walk from Conway Park Station)
£2/£1 concs - includes free glass of wine
OPEN FLOOR
Guest mc: Graham Holland
1st come, 1st booked: @ 18 x 5 min slots;
your own work or favourite pieces
Special Guests (tbc):
winners of Hammicks National Poetry Day Celebration
Philip Burton; Louise V. Mulvey; Soumyen Maitra
Bookings for slots, ideas and suggestions all welcome
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WINNING POEM
Blessed-fair Sonnet PHILIP BURTON 20/8/98
…..what’s so blessed-fair that fears no blot? -Shakespeare Sonnet
92
‘The Sun’ newspaper erased the image of a handicapped girl who had been
invited, with her father, to join the team photograph of the England Cricket
Team. The public outcry brought changes for the better in photo-journalism.
Merope: the Greek goddess who fell in love with a man and was
punished by being made over as an invisible star in the sky.
Her father proud as Atlas, rounding off the row.
Wheelchair and crouching fielders at the front,
the two honoured guests smiling. Oh I should say so.
A fine gesture this. Loyal fans. For an instant
all the team’s white strength and theirs, a continent,
a beaming family in a host of The Pleiadean stars.
How do we view the tabloid’s digital affront
airbrushing her kind face and painting a colapsar?
Who loused things up? Who made her disappear?
Who now remembers Merope, whose immortality
has died for love and whose image is a dark star?
Technology can wipe any soul. Spoil any party.
We are all daughters of Pleione, waiting in line
for the brush-off. None may fit The Grand Design.
>From: Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Re Re: THE POETRY SHED - second draft
>Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 15:41:44 +0000
>
>Yeh,
>You keep in that good mood Philip! It's one of those delightful things that
>sometimes happens, like those little cactii that seldom bloom, but when
>they do... Enjoy it for as long as you can!!!
>If y want to post the poem (I don't think TheWorks is counts as publishing
>it) then I'd be delighted to read it too!
>Bob
>
>
>>From: Philip Burton <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re Re: THE POETRY SHED - second draft
>>Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 14:10:27 +0000
>>
>>Yes Bob, Sutton Hoo, and also I was raised near the Viking ship donated to
>>us Brits by the Norwegians, in the 1950's, as a thank you for our WW2
>>efforts. It still sits in an enclosure in the wind and rain on the shore
>>at Pegwell Bay, near Ramsgate, or I would like to think that it
>>does......I think these ships look and feel indestructable, and there are
>>some really ancient boats preserved in Oslo, well worth a look.
>>Philip
>>PS I'm in good mood having won the Hammick National Poetry Day
>>Competition.
>>
>>
>>>From: Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>Subject: Re: THE POETRY SHED - second draft
>>>Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:07:47 +0000
>>>
>>>Hi Philip,
>>>I'd almost lost your poem! I don't understand what's happened to it. So
>>>I'm borrowing one of the posts about it!
>>>I love its simple rhythm, it's way of lulling me into accepting some
>>>startling and unexpected images!
>>>But I still worry about the "eternal" as a longboat. I guess you mean the
>>>sutton-hoo longboat? It might be that I have an image of almost all the
>>>other chieftan's longboats being set fire to and drifting to valhalla on
>>>the sea! But I learnt about longboats perhaps from teachers who didn't
>>>know about sutton hoo.
>>>The rest just slides smoothly on, and satisfies.
>>>Bob
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>From: Philip Burton <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>Subject: Re: THE POETRY SHED - second draft
>>>>Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 18:20:42 +0000
>>>>
>>>>Thanks Christina, You generous and valued critic, I'm so glad you like
>>>>the poem. Philip
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>From: Christina Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>Subject: Re: THE POETRY SHED - second draft
>>>>>Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:14:43 EST
>>>>>
>>>>>This is a real feast of language and images, Phil. It's the sort of
>>>>>poem I'd
>>>>>really like to hear performed - it feels as if it needs to be read
>>>>>aloud.
>>>>>Love the embelishes the patio/talking of Michaelangelo touch!
>>>>>And congratulations! Gosh, another star on the list:-)
>>>>>bw
>>>>>christina
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > The Poetry Shed
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>> > Two degrees to starboard
>>>>>
>>>>> > in ten years - its wood coat
>>>>>
>>>>> > stagey as a dose of cardboard
>>>>>
>>>>> > eternal as a longboat.
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>> > Kids respect its drum calls
>>>>>
>>>>> > its spiders (wide as jam lids).
>>>>>
>>>>> > Kids don’t hit the shed with balls
>>>>>
>>>>> > or pry away the whippy ribs.
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>> > As earwigs in a house-of-cards
>>>>>
>>>>> > the tenants come, the tenants go
>>>>>
>>>>> > Over the door, a diamond star
>>>>>
>>>>> > embellishes the patio.
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>> > The shed strains to almost fit
>>>>>
>>>>> > the pitted spade, encrusted rag
>>>>>
>>>>> > sleeping hyacinth, fig biscuit
>>>>>
>>>>> > earth-scented carpetbag,
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>> > squirreled offcuts, knotted wire
>>>>>
>>>>> > rusty horticultural floss
>>>>>
>>>>> > fungal-interpenetrated coir
>>>>>
>>>>> > tottery vases, better lost.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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