Friday, 16 December 2011

December 2011

1. Talking Turkey's - Benjamin Zephaniah. Michael

2. On A Good Day - Joanna Newsom (Lyrics). Lloyd
Taken from album Have One On Me

3. Wild Geese - Mary Oliver. Lorraine

4. My Mother Dressing - Toi Derricotte. Juliette

5. The Snow Man - Wallace Steven. Richard

6. Skating On The Lake - William Wordsworth. Steve

7. The Wicked Fairy At The Manger - Ua Fanthorpe. Michael

Thursday, 24 November 2011

Podcast

Podcast link to Armistice Day Podcast. Now and Then - Andrew Motion was taken from here.

November 2011

1. Now and Then - Andrew Motion. Juliette

2. Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening - Robert Frost. Glenda

3. A Martian Sends A Postcard Home - Craig Raine. Steve

4. Prayer - Carol Ann Duffy. Richard

5. The Sea - Esther Morgan. Lloyd

6. Ode To My Socks - Pablo Neruda. Lorraine

7. Un-named - Rainer Maria Rilke. Claire

Capital Reads Session

1. Eurydice - Carol Ann Duffy. Juliette

2. It Ain't What It Does - Simon Armitage. Steve

3. Autumn - Philip Larkin. Leona

4. A Case of Murder - Vernon Scannell. Lorraine

5. The Timid Heart - Iona McPhee. Michael

6. A poem from The Nation's favourite Comic Poems. Robert

7. "Do You Think We'll Ever Get To The Earth Sir?" - Sheenagh Pugh. Liz

8. Send Out Your Homing Pigeons - Idris Davies. Caroline

October 2011

1. Mrs Aesop - Carol Ann Duffy. Juliette
The Worlds Wife WBN Edition

2. The Legend - Carol Ann Duffy. Richard

3. Icolate - Susan Richardson. Michael

4. Icelandic - Susan Richardson. Michael

5. Dreams - 10 year old. Lloyd

6. Dad - Lloyds Daughter. Lloyd

7. Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep - Anon. Lorraine

8. Mrs Icarus - Carol Ann Duffy. Juliette

9. All The Gold Is Not Glitter. Lorraine

September 2011

No poems read as we recorded our audio slide show for a Community Force Grant and put it on the Incandescent You Tube Channel

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Sting: Song Lyrics

Michael sent on a link to this article:

Sting Explains How He Writes Song Lyrics: http://www.writerswrite.com/blog/925111

Friday, 2 September 2011

Beauty & the Beast Video

Just noticed Mr Gee posted a video of his Beauty and the Beast performance in Hollywood. Its the poem I read out in July's meeting. Thought you may like to 'see' it as well as hear it. Like the way he describes himself as a 'Stand Up Poet'...

Saturday, 20 August 2011

Birmingham for Tariq Jahan

Tariq Jahan lost his son, Haroon, in a hit and run incident during the riots in Winson Green, Birmingham on Wednesday

After the evening prayers at the mosque,

came the looters in masks,

and you three stood,

beloved in your neighbourhood,

brave, bright, brothers,

to be who you were –

a hafiz is one who has memorised

the entire Koran;

a devout man –


then the man in the speeding car

who purposefully mounted the kerb …


I think we all should kneel

on that English street,

where he widowed your pregnant wife, Shazad,

tossed your soul to the air, Abdul,

and brought your father, Haroon, to his knees,

his face masked in only your blood

on the rolling news

where nobody's children riot and burn.

CAROL ANN DUFFY


guardian.co.uk, Friday 12 August 2011 23.28 BST


Please find the original Guardian Article here

© 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved

If I Was Your Girl Friend

If I was your girl friend

Would you remember

To tell me all the things you forgot when I was your man?

Hey, when I was your man


If I was your best friend

Would you let me

Take care of you?

Do all the things that only a best friend can

Only best friends can


If I was your girl friend

If I was your girl friend


If I was your girl friend

Would you let me dress you?

Let me help pick out your clothes

Before we go out?

Not that you’re helpless

But sometime, sometime those are the things that being in love’s about


If I was your one and only friend

Would you run to me, if somebody hurt you?

Even if that somebody was me?


Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be

Please


If I was your girl friend

If I was your girl friend


Would you let me wash your hair?

Could I make you breakfast sometime?

Oh, can we just hang out?

I mean, could we go to a movie….

Could we, together?

Coz to me baby

That would be so fine


If I was your girl friend

Baby can I dress you

I mean help you pick out your clothes

Before we go out (if I was your girl friend)

Listen girl, I ain’t saying you’re helpless

But sometime, sometime those are the things that being in love’s about


Listen girl,

Sugar you know what I’m saying to you this evening

Maybe you think I’m being a little sexy tonight

I say I wanna be

All of the things, you are to me

Surely, surely you can see


Is it really necessary for me to go out of the room just because you want to undress?

We don’t have to make children to make love?

You know, we don’t have to make love to have an orgasm…


PRINCE

If I Was Your Girlfriend Video

August 2011

1. The Ted Williams Villanelle
"Don't let anybody mess with your swing."
For Ted Williams, baseball player - Wendy Cope. Michael

2. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674). Michael

3. Independent Excerpt - Jane Cordell. Michael

4. Two Headed Boy - Neutral Milk Hotel (lyrics). Lloyd

5. The Life That I Have - Leo Marx. Lorraine

6. If I was Your Girlfriend - Prince (lyrics). Juliette

7. Pastoral - Harry Webb. Michael

8. The Fist - Derek Walcott. Lloyd

9. Birmingham for Tariq Jahan - Carol Ann Duffy (12.08.11.www.guardian.co.uk). Juliette

July 2011

1. Silver - Walter De La Mare. Lorraine

2. When You Are Old - WB Yeats. Claire

3. An Appearance of Success - David Wright. Juliette
Poems On The Underground

4. Nothing To Save - DH Lawrence. Hannah

5. Blackbird - Leslie Saunders. Leona

6. Severn Song - Philip Gross. Steve

7. Fruit Tree - Nick Drake (lyrics). Lloyd

8. Year of The Cat - Al Stewart (lyrics). Lloyd

May 2011

To be put up

April 2011

1. Mrs Faust - Carol Ann Duffy. Juliette
The Worlds Wife WBN Edition

2. My Literary Party - Lorraine Gray. Lorraine
Published in South Wales Echo

3. Skyman - Jane Draycott. Leona

4. The London Underground - Anon. Juliette

5. I Shall Wear Purple - Jenny Joseph. Lorraine

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Beauty and the Beast

You can listen here to the poem I read in June:

Beauty and the Beast by Mr Gee

It was recorded for the BBC & made available on a limited edition CD.
Now it is available free to download on Soundcloud

Monday, 4 July 2011

June 2011

1. Apologiea - Anon. Claire
2. Beauty and the Beast - Mr. Gee. Juliette
3. Whatever would Robert have said? - Peter Hammil. Lloyd
4. Stop all the clocks - W.H. Auden. Lorraine
5. The False Heart - Hilaire Eelloc. Lorraine
6. How to read poetry (an article from theRadio Times) - Sheila Hancock. Juliette

Saturday, 26 March 2011

March 2011

1. Peninsular - Seamus Heaney. Juliette
2. Strange Fruit - Seamus Heaney. Michael
3. The Stone Verdict - Seamus Heaney. Jen
4. Relic of Memory - Seamus Heaney. Phill
5. The Baiter - Seamus Heaney. Leona
6. The Butts - Seamus Heaney. Steve

February 2011

1. Progress - Alan Guiness. Michael
2. Poem of Bliss - Rumi. Monica
3. Hijab Score no. 7 - Anon. Michael.
4. The Last Hello - Les Murrary. Steve
5. The Guest House - Rumi. Michael
6. Two Kings of Intelligence - Anon. Michael

Januray 2011

1. One of St. Agnes - John Keats. Michael
2. To Sleep - John Keats. Michael.
3. A Parental Order - Thomas Hood. Steve
4. Check the meaning - Richard Ashcroft. Juliette (lyrics)

December 2010

1. Love songs in the key of Y - Philip Gross. Michael
2. Ancestors - Anthony Thwaite. Michael
3. Canada - Billy Collins. Juliette
4. Big Muddy Blues - Philip Gross. Michael

November 2010

1. Docker - Seamus Heaney. Michael
2. The Journey - Edward Field. Juliette
3. Scholer 2 - Seamus Dean. Michael

October 2010

1. September 12th, 2001 - X. S. Kennedy. Juliette
2. One World - Anon. Michael
3. Oliver Singing - Anon. Steve

July 2010

1. Skies - Marion Jordan. Juliette
2. Grammar - Sinead Morrisey. Michael
3. The 7th Elegy - Rilke. Leona
4. Pipstrele - Mark Doty. Steve
5. Rushoulter Bay - Claire Fienstein. Juliette