tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73289351433676907662024-03-14T03:36:05.932-07:00Poets UnlimitedPoets Unlimitedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16749297756926894584noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328935143367690766.post-12258629685056219082012-06-16T16:18:00.001-07:002012-06-16T16:23:55.111-07:00Ordinary Magic - now available!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you would like to purchase <em><span style="color: black;">Ordinary Magic</span></em> please email: </h2>
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<strong><span style="color: #e69138;">Jim Alderson * Fay Avsec * Margaret Beston</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #e69138;">Angela Croft * Susan Hughes * Sylvia Rowbottom</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #e69138;">Fraser Southey * Norman Staines * Wisty Thomas</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #e69138;">Karina Vidler * Linda White</span></strong></div>Poets Unlimitedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16749297756926894584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328935143367690766.post-43337403294265957582012-04-03T04:03:00.000-07:002012-04-03T04:03:35.487-07:00UNLIMITED POET PUNCHES ABOVE HIS WEIGHTFraser Southey, one of our eleven, will be reading a couple of his poems from Ordinary Magic, along with new material, at Torriano Meeting House in Kentish Town on Sunday 29th April - kick off at 7.30pm.<br />
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Also featured is Joe Cullen - a good friend of Poets Unlimited. All welcome. Details below:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #e69138;">Jim Alderson Fay Avsec Margaret Beston</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #e69138;">Angela Croft Sylvia Rowbottom</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #e69138;">Fraser Southey Norman Staines Wisty Thomas</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #e69138;">Karina Vidler Linda White</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thurs 17 November 2011 at 7.00 pm</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">at The Poetry Cafe</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">22 Betterton Street, WC2</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Tube: Covent Garden</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Doors open at 7.00 pm for 7.30 readings</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Admission: £2.00</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Open mic: If you would like to read, please arrive by 7.00 pm to register.</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Limited spots. One poem, 40 lines max.</em></div>margarethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12448640120232238884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328935143367690766.post-24736676684710286532011-09-09T14:10:00.000-07:002011-09-09T14:33:27.466-07:00Poets Unlimited at Rhythm & Muse - 29 Sept 2011<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<strong>Rhythm & Muse </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #e69138;">ORDINARY MAGIC</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Thursday 29 September 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Venue: The Grey Horse, 46 Richmond Road, Kingston KT2 5EE</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Jim Alderson, Fay Avsec</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Angela Croft, Sylvia Rowbottom</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Fraser Southey, Norman Staines</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.rhythmandmuse.org/">http://www.rhythmandmuse.org/</a></div>Poets Unlimitedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16749297756926894584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328935143367690766.post-54013337077037949462011-08-18T07:43:00.000-07:002011-08-30T11:52:47.180-07:00Duncan Forbes' review of Ordinary MagicThis new anthology presents a rich variety of poems from a range of eleven different writers. By turns, frank, moving and thought-provoking, poems here look beneath the ordinary surfaces of life to reveal its mysteries, depths and tragicomedies.<br />
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Good wishes to you all and many thanks for inviting me to the evening of the launch which I felt went so well.<br />
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<em>Duncan Forbes' work includes ‘<strong>Lifelines: Selected Poems</strong>’ (Enitharmon) drawn from five previous collections. Recipient of a Gregory Award, TLS/Blackwells Prize, Stephen Spender Times Translation Prizes and a Hawthornden Fellowship, he is also a painter.</em><br />
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margarethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12448640120232238884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328935143367690766.post-49019154840672437272011-07-15T03:28:00.000-07:002011-07-15T03:28:24.027-07:00Jane Draycott comments on Ordinary Magic' ... many congratulations to all of you - a real achievement. The poems all work very well together, but also have a kind of incremental unity in the way they work almost in 'chapters' of each individual poet. You're obviously a strong group - keep the torch burning... '<br />
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<em>Jane Draycott's translation of <strong>Pearl </strong>has just been published by Carcanet Oxford Poets</em>Poets Unlimitedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16749297756926894584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328935143367690766.post-43404327237300324892011-07-13T03:26:00.000-07:002011-07-13T03:26:11.304-07:00Ian Duhig reviews Ordinary Magic...'Ordinary Magic' brings together a selection from poets who are anything but ordinary: they draw on a truly international experience of different cultures and many languages including that of flowers. They represent all corners of the societies of these islands and a host of styles, from the formally accomplished through to experimental mirror-writing, with every mood from the humourous to the heartbreaking. They have, in their own words, collectivised and stepped outside the mainstream so they may be heard on their own terms. We should be grateful for their bravery.<br />
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<em>Ian Duhig's latest collection, <strong>Pandorama</strong>, is published by Picador</em>Poets Unlimitedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16749297756926894584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328935143367690766.post-40979876500235726102011-07-09T14:03:00.001-07:002011-07-09T14:03:43.542-07:00Review of Ordinary MagicOrdinary Magic <br />
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Ordinary Magic is the first anthology of Poets Unlimited, a group of 11 poets who met through workshops in London. The title poem comes from Fraser Southey and tells of the wonderful goings on in Lampmead Road – a fly on the wall piece acutely observed. Each poet conjures up a healthy selection of poems in this 104 page book.<br />
From the wonderful Uriah Heep’s unsent letter to Miss Wickfield (The Love Song of Uriah Heep, Jim Alderson) I rummage through the magician’s box of tricks, pull out Eye of the dog by Fay Avsec. A lovely piece, I recognise that tragic look, the unconditional love. Next, the Mecca ballroom in Margaret Beston’s The day he left – a poem that resonates because of its rattling, clattering and screeching. We slip easily into Angela Croft’s poems and I found the shoes under the stairs was the poem that stayed with me. When I closed the book I could still see the boy who leapt naked off the quay to rid himself of lice.<br />
Susan Hughes’ A London bridge is a beautifully rich plumped-up poem – I felt I was wading knee deep through warm mud. I couldn’t help but feel moved by Sylvia Rowbottom’s The arthritic condition; the opening line “Take my unrecognisable hand in yours,” is heart-breaking when “it still leads to me” follows on the next line. The iron men of Crosby Beach by Norman Staines stunningly tells of “one hundred patient men/emotion missing from their sea-ward faces/waiting for time to unpick their atoms/to become the objects of nature’s alchemy”. <br />
In Wisty Thomas’ colourful Temple I was struck by the image of how “Your mum’s blue silk dressing gown/covers an altar made of books” and in Karina Vidler’s Offering to my father we need an A-Z of geography as the “bus swelters through unknown London streets” before we travel on to the next poet. I’ve journeyed through this bewitching anthology finally arriving in the “almost dawn” of Linda White’s Before dawn and step in to her world just long enough to see “the imprint of your head” in the last poem Leaving.<br />
Ordinary Magic, Poets Unlimited, Blissett Bookbinders (2011), 978-1-905912-27-8, £7<br />
For further information and to buy the anthology visit: <a href="http://poetsunlimited.blogspot.com/or">http://poetsunlimited.blogspot.com/or</a> email: <a href="mailto:poetsunlimited@gmail.com">poetsunlimited@gmail.com</a><br />
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JillPoets Unlimitedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16749297756926894584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328935143367690766.post-23009912064665874212011-06-19T13:44:00.000-07:002011-06-19T13:44:15.506-07:00Ordinary Magic - now available!If you would like to purchase the new anthology 'Ordinary Magic', please email: <a href="mailto:poetsunlimited@gmail.com">poetsunlimited@gmail.com</a><br />
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We look forward to hearing from you!Poets Unlimitedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16749297756926894584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328935143367690766.post-75613244529693887792011-06-06T14:49:00.000-07:002011-06-06T14:49:02.111-07:00Calling all poetry lovers.....<b><span style="color: #e56c0a; font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><span style="color: #e56c0a; font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><span style="color: #e56c0a; font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Poets Unlimited</span></div></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Invite you to the launch of their anthology</div></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><span style="font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Friday 17 June 2011 at 7.00 pm</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">at</span></div></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><span style="font-family: Garamond-Bold; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;">LUMEN</div></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><span style="font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">88 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9RS</span></div></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">www.lumenurc.org.uk</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nearest tube station: Russell Square</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Doors open 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm readings</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Refreshments will be served</span></div></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;">featuring</div></span></span><b><span style="color: #994807; font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><span style="color: #994807; font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><span style="color: #994807; font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Jim Alderson</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Fay Avsec</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Margaret Beston</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Angela Croft</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Susan Hughes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sylvia Rowbottom</span></div></span></span></span><span style="color: #994807; font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><span style="color: #994807; font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><span style="color: #994807; font-family: Garamond-Bold;"></span></span></span><span style="color: #994807; font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><span style="color: #994807; font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><span style="color: #994807; font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Fraser Southey</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Norman Staines</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wisty Thomas</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Karina Vidler</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Linda White</span></div></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Admission free but booking essential.</div></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><span style="font-family: Garamond-Bold;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">RSVP: via individual poets or to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">poetsunlimited@gmail.com</span></div></span></span></b></b></b></b>Poets Unlimitedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16749297756926894584noreply@blogger.com0