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POEM by sal - Ode to the YEB

Ode to the YEB
I was makin’ eggs and bacon
On the Lincolnshire Wolds.
Then, guess what? The power went off,
My breakfast went stone cold.
Up and down the hills I go
With nothin’ in my belly,
Think I’ll go back home again
To see what’s on the telly.
“you can’t do that, it’s electric,
Oh what a silly ass”.
I’d better go and find [...]

Oxfam Holmes book fetches £15,500

A book handed into an Oxfam shop which contains the first Sherlock Holmes stories has sold for £15,500.

Study in Scarlet, which features Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first two Holmes tales, was donated to a Harrogate, North Yorkshire, branch of the charity.
It beat a guide price of £9,000 during an auction of books given to [...]

‘Worst poet’ outsells boy wizard

A private collector has paid £6,600 for poems by the man ridiculed as “the world’s worst poet”.
A total of 35 of William McGonagall’s works - many of them autographed - have been up for auction in Edinburgh.
The ditties by “The Tayside Tragedian” went for more than a collection of Harry Potter first editions signed [...]

Caribbean poet Cesaire dies at 94

Poet and political activist Aime Cesaire has died in Martinique aged 94.
Born on the French Caribbean island in 1913, he became famous for promoting black consciousness and challenging the political establishment.

Cesaire was partly responsible for coining the word “negritude”, a term affirming pride in black identity.
His poetry and plays, including a black adaptation [...]

Top literary names to headline WORD 08

James Kelman and Alasdair Gray are two of the big names topping the bill at this year’s WORD Festival at the University of Aberdeen. The Scots literary heavyweights will be joined by influential Glaswegian writer Janice Galloway, acclaimed Irish poet Michael Longley and a raft of talent from the UK and beyond.
The festival’s programme, which [...]

Poem honours WWI veteran aged 109

A poem has been composed by the poet laureate for the oldest surviving veteran who fought in the trenches in World War I, 109-year-old Harry Patch. Andrew Motion composed the work [...]

Poets Aloud

Poems to make, watch and hear.

Poets read their own poetry aloud, here

as an aside, this is something I am aiming to bring here too. A section
for painters to show themselves paingint on webcam, and poets and
authors to read segments of their work for us.

If you are interested in this side of things I would love [...]