tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78999344102417979852024-03-12T00:50:21.758-07:00Dodo Modern Vidpoets 2023Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899934410241797985.post-23149428009885260632023-12-06T08:04:00.000-08:002023-12-06T08:10:41.746-08:00 KATE B HALL<p> <em style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>KATE B HALL</b></span></span></span></span></em></p><p><em style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></span></span></em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRPEuFM4BfMI7IrG0KtA0Gbg0Wztg-jMgbljUPrTgVclR8tFdgmmvQ4zkQcPtWXdIQDTtinJHiQ0PNEjzgda1PIHdOEGXg9mHGnr7OJrMh2dP4tMr_lMdUxXJ1GBWWK7RUhDSFc-2iterSAyhyphenhyphenUKVXS9M8Dabndm70dl8ZbZnM8nwEHxZhRbW2QlnxqJI/s179/katebhall2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="179" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRPEuFM4BfMI7IrG0KtA0Gbg0Wztg-jMgbljUPrTgVclR8tFdgmmvQ4zkQcPtWXdIQDTtinJHiQ0PNEjzgda1PIHdOEGXg9mHGnr7OJrMh2dP4tMr_lMdUxXJ1GBWWK7RUhDSFc-2iterSAyhyphenhyphenUKVXS9M8Dabndm70dl8ZbZnM8nwEHxZhRbW2QlnxqJI/s1600/katebhall2.jpg" width="179" /></a></span></span></span></span></em></div><em style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></em><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.9px; margin-bottom: 0.64cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">We were saddened to learn of the death of Kate B Hall on 29</span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><sup><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></span></sup></span></span></em><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"> November. She was a regular and welcome presence at </span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">many</span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"> Dodo events over the years. Her </span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">fine</span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"> poetry and</span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"> ebullient warm personality will be sorely missed.</span></span></span></span></em></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.9px; margin-bottom: 0.64cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">We are pleased to attach links to some of Kate’s </span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">Dodo</span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"> performances, including contributions to online shows and a live event in London where she was a featured act. This performance on a warm spring afternoon marked the first of our afternoon residencies at the King and Queen pub, </span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">Foley St, W1. Until then we had put on evening shows. It was a happy occasion and Kate was in sparkling form </span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">with poems ranging from the personal to the political, just how we want to remember her. </span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">I recently reread <i>Irises</i>, one of Kate’s collections of haiku. It remains a pleasure to re</span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">visit this lovely book.</span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></span></span></em></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.9px; margin-bottom: 0.64cm;"><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Regards</span></span></span></span></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.9px; margin-bottom: 0.64cm;"><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Patric Cunnane</span></span></span></span></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.9px; margin-bottom: 0.64cm;"><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">PR Murry</span></span></span></span></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.9px; margin-bottom: 0.64cm;"><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The obit below appears on the Haikupedia site. The editors say a longer piece is forthcoming.</span></span></span></span></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.15px; margin-bottom: 0.47cm; margin-top: 0.47cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif">K</span></span></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif">ate B Hall (born Kay Brenda Stephan, June 22, 1945, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, U.K.; died November 29, 2023), retired British artist and adult education tutor. She wrote poetry, haiku, reviews, and fiction and recently completed a creative writing MA degree. She published two </span></span></span><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">haikai</span></span></span></span></em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"> and tanka collections, </span></span></span><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">Running for Nothing</span></span></span></span></em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"> (2004) and </span></span></span><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">Irises </span></span></span></span></em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif">(2015). Her poetry collections </span></span></span><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">The Story Is</span></span></span></span></em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"> (2018) and </span></span></span><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">Spell for Melting Ice </span></span></span></span></em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif">(2021) were published by Bad Betty Press and she was working on a collection of short stories and other haiku and poetry collections just before her death. Her works appeared in </span></span></span><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">Still</span></span></span></span></em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif">, </span></span></span><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">Blithe Spirit, Time Haiku, Presence</span></span></span></span></em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif">, and BHS members’ anthologies. Hall edited the BHS members’ anthology </span></span></span><em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">Root </span></span></span></span></em><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif">(2019). She was a member of the London Haiku Group and the British Haiku Society and served as BHS president (2016–2018). Hall resided in London. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 20.15px; margin-bottom: 0.47cm; margin-top: 0.47cm;"><span style="color: #b41e03;"><span face="Libre Baskerville, sans-serif"><span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://haikupedia.org/&source=gmail&ust=1701964803827000&usg=AOvVaw2s-FNVcaHzxI5ygZ1csz0D" href="https://haikupedia.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://haikupedia.org/</a></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; margin-bottom: 0.93cm;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kate B. Hall reads at Virtual Dodo Modern Poets April 2020</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; margin-bottom: 0.93cm;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/8xm6zmxgBfI&source=gmail&ust=1701964803827000&usg=AOvVaw3mqX1qi6IMYAEfKEcX5EqP" href="https://youtu.be/8xm6zmxgBfI" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249);">https://youtu.be/8xm6zmxgBfI</span></span></span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13.91px; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="m_4503767928333100930__Hlk152504705"></a><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d;">Kate B. Hall at Virtual Dodo Modern Poets 2, June 2020</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13.91px; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/QB1NRkJdmwU&source=gmail&ust=1701964803827000&usg=AOvVaw0RxaKZcyy1xEy4CLkBNQXy" href="https://youtu.be/QB1NRkJdmwU" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249);">https://youtu.be/QB1NRkJdmwU</span></span></span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13.91px; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-size: medium;">Kate B. Hall at Virtual Dodo Modern Poets 12 September 2020</span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13.91px; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/aq1z6rJmkOk&source=gmail&ust=1701964803827000&usg=AOvVaw0xBOefb9KQY83LSywfwo2P" href="https://youtu.be/aq1z6rJmkOk" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249);">https://youtu.be/aq1z6rJmkOk</span></span></span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13.91px; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-size: medium;">Kate B.Hall part 1 dodo modern poets 24 may 2018 : The King & Queen, 1 Foley St, London, W1W 6DL</span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13.91px; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/e98nVGPIPgI&source=gmail&ust=1701964803828000&usg=AOvVaw0mtPKS89gt_PGxf9Qbh7no" href="https://youtu.be/e98nVGPIPgI" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249);">https://youtu.be/e98nVGPIPgI</span></span></span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13.91px; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-size: medium;">Kate B.Hall part 2 dodo modern poets 24 may 2018 : The King & Queen, 1 Foley St, London, W1W 6DL</span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13.91px; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/Q9Yj5fgSKzw&source=gmail&ust=1701964803828000&usg=AOvVaw1c6A2FdPpCTeV0vqREr38C" href="https://youtu.be/Q9Yj5fgSKzw" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249);">https://youtu.be/Q9Yj5fgSKzw</span></span></span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13.91px; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13.91px; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13.91px; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Roboto;">December 2023</span><br /></span></p><div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899934410241797985.post-85686929731114943072023-10-15T05:49:00.054-07:002023-10-27T09:01:29.149-07:00A POETRY EXTRAVAGANZA – CELEBRATING EMILE SERCOMBE @ Ramsgate Fire station 22 September 2023 <p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 24pt;">CELEBRATING </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 24pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 24pt;">EMILE </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 24pt;"> SERCOMBE </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 24pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Poetry at Ramsgate Fire Station </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">22 September
2023<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="line-height: 21.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">The evening was a joyous occasion celebrating
the life, poetry and art of Ramsgate-based Emile Sercombe.</span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="line-height: 21.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 18pt;">All
performers have a personal connection to Emile through his engagement with
poetry events and organisations across many venues over the years. These
include Apples and Snakes, Worthless Words, Tongue Circus, Dodo Modern Poets,
Ragged Trousered Cabaret and Landing Place. He was the host of Eats ‘n’ Beats
in Ramsgate.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 18pt;">The event shown here was
organised by Multiverse Poets.</span></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="line-height: 21.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">We recall his inspirational poetry as well as
his knack for bringing people together. Emile involved everyone with his
captivating performances and was able to connect with poets and audiences from
a diverse spectrum. This event celebrated that and provided a platform to
continue connecting with other poets and other poetry events.</span></p><p class="Textbody" style="line-height: 21.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="line-height: 21.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">The evening was hosted by Multiverse Poets.</span></p><p class="Textbody" style="line-height: 21.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">Poets in order of appearance, introduced by
Sarah Tait. </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">PR Murry</span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">Mark Holihan </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">Paul Adams </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">Patric Cunnane </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">Simon Medhurst </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">Dan Thompson </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">Sarah Tait </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">John Coops </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">Derek Sellen</span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">Richard Cooper </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">Sue Johns</span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">Luigi Marchini </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">Gary Studley </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;">Bob Jones</span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 7.8pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
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<div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Paul Adams</span></div><div><br /></div>
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<div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Dan Thompson</span></div><div><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>
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<div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sarah Tait</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">John Coops</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Derek Sellen</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Luigi Marchini</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899934410241797985.post-36287596338043031192023-06-21T07:43:00.007-07:002023-06-21T07:50:52.521-07:00REMEMBERING EMILE SERCOMBE<p> </p><p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjroaLEMt8-qEfQKB428r91EE8T6LXL09bJ-jTrP1ys_bsNNpJtZ_L0vI62kL70PgI00e4eyMe1ikGby5a-KQc6CSUhN5QRbOlSj4Q4g6no-hg-U33Ghz8V32JKBiRf-u2OAhXLRpL4d8YlPFtn2ljrBfvCTJgECg3fmDzBa1imM8d9PFjYAgD-hSvkxKI/s711/emiledit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="711" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjroaLEMt8-qEfQKB428r91EE8T6LXL09bJ-jTrP1ys_bsNNpJtZ_L0vI62kL70PgI00e4eyMe1ikGby5a-KQc6CSUhN5QRbOlSj4Q4g6no-hg-U33Ghz8V32JKBiRf-u2OAhXLRpL4d8YlPFtn2ljrBfvCTJgECg3fmDzBa1imM8d9PFjYAgD-hSvkxKI/w640-h432/emiledit.jpg" width="640" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p>
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<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Our dear friend Emile Sercombe died on 14<sup>th</sup>
May 2023. Here we remember his friendship, his poetry and his art. Feel free to
send us poems or comments about Emile and we will publish them as a separate
post.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">I met Emile in 1980 through London listings
magazine Time Out – poets were invited to Worthless Words workshop in
Kennington. There I encountered the finest performance poet I’ve seen. A poetry
adventure began that would last over 40 years.</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Worthless Words was formed by Emile and Pete
Murry, now Dodo co-organiser.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">We
performed as a group, touring arts and community centres and supporting Roger
McGough at a Croydon festival, in a show directed by Christine Eccles.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Performers included my sister Berni, Chris
Cardale, reggae influenced Markus Jahn and 17-year old Mark Steel.</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">The eighties were a busy time. With Pete Murry
and other union members I founded Ragged Trousered Cabaret, which staged
benefits and shows for the labour movement. Emile performed in the first show,
for Sutton Labour Party, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">and many subsequent events. We took shows to
picket lines and to Snowdown Colliery during the miners’ strike. Emile also
regularly performed for Apples and Snakes, founded by our friend Mandy
Williams.</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">In 1984 Pete and I read at the St Ives Poetry
Festival in Cornwall, invited by local poet and artist Bob Devereux. Emile came
on our next visit. Bob and Emile immediately clicked – they were both artists
and poets, both brilliant performers with a similar world view.</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Audiences were amazed by Emile’s verbal and
visual audacity, often combined</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">with
home-made props. They watched spell bound as he constructed an unreliable chair
which fell apart at the poem’s end; they ached at the comic tragedy of Brian
and Terry, where an innocent night out results in a fiery finale in a pub;</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">they sighed for the fate of a worm eaten by a
thrush. One of his potato poems used a humble spud to represent a cruise
missile which explodes terrifyingly in a dustbin; in Kohinoor, the fabled jewel
of the ages is shattered by a hammer; in Werewolf it turns out these
sartorially sensitive creatures eat architects. Of course they do!</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Emile was a brilliant writer. His poems are
just as effective on the page as proved by collections Forty Best, God and His
Mates and Worm Poems.</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">In 1989 Pete and I started Dodo Modern Poets,
to provide a stage for new and established poets. Emile has been a regular
performer ever since, appearing often at our London residencies, including the
Poetry Cafe.</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">We took Dodo to Laugharne in Wales where Dylan
Thomas once lived. Emile, Berni and London-based Cornish poet Sue Johns joined
me for a gig at the Cors Hotel.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">The
poets performed against a backdrop of French windows on a mild October night.
Later, we joined Nick, the hotel’s owner, for drinks and a little weed. A fine
mellow evening.</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">During the pandemic Pete suggested starting an
online Dodo show. Emile contributed videos to many of these. Our latest show,
Virtual Dodo Eleven, features two of his poems. These include the imagined
reaction of a horrified T.S. Eliot when confronted by Tracey Emin’s bed in
Margate’s Turner Contemporary.</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">I last shared a stage with Emile at the
Canterbury Festival in October 2022, where Sue Johns and I staged an evening.
Emile read Brian and Terry and a poem written on the spot, celebrating the
festival. This was his party trick – writing something in the moment to read
out loud. He did the same thing at our wedding reception when Ruth and I got
married.</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">In 2013 Emile and his wife Berni moved to
Ramsgate. The following year Ruth and I moved to Folkestone. We became neighbours
by the sea.</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Emile engaged enthusiastically with local
poets, co-organising Eats n’ Beats in Ramsgate and appearing at the Landing
Stage events at Turner Contemporary.</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">We last saw him at Berni and Emile’s house in
May 2023.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">We shared fizzy wine and cake
and passed round the Worthless Words broadsheet. We mused about those poets we
had once worked with. Where did the time go?</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">My beloved poet had become my beloved brother
in law. For anyone starting a new poetry adventure look no further than the
extraordinary works of Emile Sercombe.</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Patric Cunnane, June 2023</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Here’s the poem Emile wrote on the spot at the
Eleto Chocolate Cafe, Canterbury, 21 October 2022, during the Canterbury
Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">POETRY
AT ELETO<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
this late Octobre when the trees in switch colour fold<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">and
tempests drive leaves soaring into piles of gold<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">for
kids and dogs and spadgers to kick and dance in<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then
from ilke hamlets of Kentenland and een<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">from
oure capital do poets come to be seen<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">and
share their joyful words at Eleto chocolate cafe<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">by
Saint Thomas’s Cathedral of blessed memory<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">in
Caunterbury<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And
especially from Mitcheham Sue Johns has comen<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And
Patric Cunnane hot foot from distant Folke-stone<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Frank
Crocker feted poet of Londone<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">and
great wordsmiths Aisha Celestino and Luigi Marchini<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">who
live in towne<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Welcome
all poets and brilliant audience alle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To
our festivalle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But
now no silence more<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let
us beginne<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="line-height: 106%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 106%;">HURRAH
HURRAH HURRAH!</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 106%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>EMILE AS
ARTIST<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Thanks to Berni Cunnane for permission to
include extracts from the obituary<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>she
wrote for The Guardian.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Emile was also a gifted artist and muralist
under the name Steve Lobb, working in south east London’s community arts
movement. Together With Carol Kenna he set up artists’ collective Greenwich
Mural Workshop in 1975. Public murals included The People’s River on the
Meridian estate in Greenwich, designed in consultation with tenants. Other
large scale murals included one in Floyd Road, Charlton, celebrating a
successful campaign against demolishing the street and another at Rathmore
youth centre which featured Gaudi-style mosaic benches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">In 1983 the Greater London Council asked him to
produce a Wind of Peace Mural for GLC Peace Year. The following year it
commissioned People of Greenwich Unite Against Racism for its Anti Racism Year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">The murals graduated from paint to mosaics,
including the Hitchcock mosaics at Leytonstone tube station and the Glyndon
estate mosaics in Plumstead. The workshop also made scores of banners for
unions and other community groups. It restored a banner for the International
Brigade, British Battalion, that fought in the Spanish civil war.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">In 2019 Steve and Carol were involved in
creating For Walls With Tongues, an online project with a book that gathered
together some of the oral history of street murals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Steve regularly exhibited his paintings in
Greenwich and after moving to Ramsgate in 2013 staged several exhibitions of
his paintings and constructions at the Pie Factory gallery in Margate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">A SELECTION OF EMILE’S DODO<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PERFORMANCES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Featured act,
full set, in Virtual Dodo Six, May 2021</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlETmD47SC0&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlETmD47SC0&feature=youtu.be</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Single poems in
other virtual Dodos</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Virtual Dodo 1
Brian and Terry</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://youtu.be/TkELJG04DFk" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://youtu.be/TkELJG04DFk</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Virtual Dodo 2: Brian and Betty and the Plane to
Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://youtu.be/iO7RqVMO-JA" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://youtu.be/iO7RqVMO-JA</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Virtual Dodo 3: The Lockdown Drop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://youtu.be/6SZJJbZGLYk%20virtua%20dodo%203" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://youtu.be/6SZJJbZGLYk
virtua dodo 3</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Virtual Dodo 4:
Shenandoah</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://youtu.be/kKRgbSbRBoc" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://youtu.be/kKRgbSbRBoc</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">VD5 My Dad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><a href="https://youtu.be/huK6oYF2-AY" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #0563c1; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://youtu.be/huK6oYF2-AY</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Virtual Dodo 7 -
Chair - in the garden at Ramsgate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NBvFhgEMjU" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NBvFhgEMjU</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">LIVE DODO
SHOWS WITH EMILE AS FEATURED ACT</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Poetry Cafe,
London, 14 December 2013</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.75pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://youtu.be/UuLrLL-bZRo" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://youtu.be/UuLrLL-bZRo</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.75pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.75pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> Poetry Cafe, London, first set, 21 February
2014</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://youtu.be/tcS9CrKfRJk" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://youtu.be/tcS9CrKfRJk</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Poetry Cafe, London, second set, 21 February 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk6w4B-jlds" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk6w4B-jlds</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Poetry Cafe, London, first set, 17 July 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuJlsB1OhWQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuJlsB1OhWQ</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Poetry Cafe, London, first set, 17 July 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUlr3htFJhY" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUlr3htFJhY</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">King & Queen, London, first set, 27 April 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk1jDAI6EWw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk1jDAI6EWw</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">King & Queen, London, second set, 27 April 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziruiOUlux0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziruiOUlux0</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">King & Queen, London, first set, 31 October
2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_G638NeU4M" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_G638NeU4M</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">King & Queen, London, second set, 31 October
2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-line-height-alt: 9.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUhlGjgwStQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUhlGjgwStQ</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ligatures: standardcontextual;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"> link to Emile's CD below the performance
links. It's a free download on Bandcamp<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://emilesercombe.bandcamp.com/album/21-performance-poems&source=gmail&ust=1687440485101000&usg=AOvVaw3Zd2L-U1VE64_Mye33JOIi" href="https://emilesercombe.bandcamp.com/album/21-performance-poems" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://emilesercombe.<wbr></wbr>bandcamp.com/album/21-<wbr></wbr>performance-poems</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 70.9pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899934410241797985.post-64950860831973989082023-05-18T07:22:00.054-07:002023-05-22T05:57:01.633-07:00VIRTUAL DODO 11<p> <b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">WELCOME TO VIRTUAL DODO ELEVEN – MAY 2023</span></span></b></p>
<p class="Standard"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Welcome to the 11th virtual show from Dodo Modern Poets. This programme
takes our tally to around 280 performances and contributions since launching in
April 2020. We thank everyone who has contributed, enjoyed and supported the
shows along the way.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">While finalising this show we learned of the sad death of our dear and
beloved friend <b>Emile Sercombe</b>, a brilliantly gifted poet, artist,
muralist and teacher. Pete and I have known Emile since 1980. We met through
London-based poetry workshop Worthless Words, a regular event set up by Emile,
Pete and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A separate tribute will
follow soon. Meanwhile we are delighted to include two poems by Emile in this
show and poems by Pete and I dedicated to Emile.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">The latest event begins with two exceptional featured acts, <b>Camilla
Reeve</b> and <b>Joseph Healy </b></span><o:p></o:p></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">followed by open mic contributors.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p>
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<p class="Standard"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">CAMILLA REEVE</span></span></b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Camilla Theresa Reeve (</span><a href="mailto:camilla_reeve@yahoo.co.uk"><span class="Internetlink"><span lang="EN-US">camilla_reeve@yahoo.co.uk</span></span></a><span lang="EN-US">) is a writer,
independent publisher, </span>and Trustee of the
Cambrian Community Centre in Richmond<span lang="EN-US">. Her five poetry collections are <i>Travels of
a Spider</i>, 2006, </span><a href="https://palewellpress.co.uk/Books-History.html#Travel-Spider"><span class="Internetlink"><span lang="EN-US">https://palewellpress.co.uk/Books-History.html#Travel-Spider</span></span></a><span lang="EN-US">; <i>Travelling
East by Road and Soul, </i>2009 (from flipped eye publishing) </span><a href="https://palewellpress.co.uk/Books-History.html#Travel-East"><span class="Internetlink"><span lang="EN-US">https://palewellpress.co.uk/Books-History.html#Travel-East</span></span></a><span lang="EN-US">; <i>Raft of</i> <i>Puffins,</i>
2016, </span><a href="https://palewellpress.co.uk/Books-Nature.html#Raft-Puffins"><span class="Internetlink"><span lang="EN-US">https://palewellpress.co.uk/Books-Nature.html#Raft-Puffins</span></span></a><span lang="EN-US">;<i> Tales from Two
Citie</i>s, 2018, </span><a href="https://palewellpress.co.uk/Books-History.html#Tales-Cities"><span class="Internetlink"><span lang="EN-US">https://palewellpress.co.uk/Books-History.html#Tales-Cities</span></span></a><span lang="EN-US">; and<i> What I
Tell Myself At night,</i> 2022, </span><a href="https://palewellpress.co.uk/Books-Health.html#Tell-Myself"><span class="Internetlink"><span lang="EN-US">https://palewellpress.co.uk/Books-Health.html#Tell-Myself</span></span></a><span lang="EN-US">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Camilla is a long-standing member of the Wordshare Poets and She Voices
writing groups and enjoys performing live. Her young adults futuristic fantasy,
“The Cloud Singer”, 2016, </span><a href="https://palewellpress.co.uk/Books-Nature.html#Cloud-Singer"><span class="Internetlink"><span lang="EN-US">https://palewellpress.co.uk/Books-Nature.html#Cloud-Singer</span></span></a><span lang="EN-US">, is about global
warming and she is working on its sequel. In 2016, after 30 years in IT, she
founded Palewell Press, an independent publisher focusing on books about Human
Rights and the Environment. Many of the publisher’s 60 books were written by
refugees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Palewell Press(</span><a href="http://www.palewellpress.co.uk/"><span class="Internetlink"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.palewellpress.co.uk</span></span></a><span lang="EN-US">) is a founding
member of the Changing Wor(l)ds Network of cultural activist <span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">organisations
supporting and</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: black;">disseminating
radically marginalised voices in literature. </span>Together with Latefa Narriman Guemar, an Algerian-born Research
Associate at the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging, Camilla hosted
‘Homeland and Exile’ – biennial panel discussions at the Poetry Café, examining
the refugee-exile experience through literature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Standard"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">JOSEPH HEALY<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> have been writing
poetry since I was a teenager in Dublin, hugely influenced by the literary city
where I grew up, where virtually every second person was a writer of some sort.
In 1982/83 I organised the first poetry readings by openly gay poets in Ireland
and toured the country encountering huge opposition and homophobia. The
well-known poets John Hewitt and Eddie Linden were involved. I moved to London
in 1984 and have been writing poetry since. I have been involved in my trade
union as a shop steward and also as a leftwing political activist outside the
Labour Party. As such my poetry deals with issues like Brexit and Covid but
also with the imminent destruction of the planet. Irish history and
landscape have also been a major theme in my poetry. I am a regular contributor
to Dodo readings and have been involved for a number of years. Poetry has never
been more necessary than now as an antidote to the grim unrelenting reaction of
the society driven by short-term thinking that we live in. I am also a member
of the Irish Literary Society.</span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Standard"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Anti
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<p style="background: white; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><u><br /></u></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><u>T.S. Eliot Goes to the Doctor</u><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">Doctor doctor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">what can I do for you my man?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">I don’t feel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">Don’t Fret my man<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">I’m just the same<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">it’s normal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">I’m the urban spaceman buddy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">There is nothing new here<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">except your mobile<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">Imagine our poet just last month maybe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">perhaps despite him saying there is nothing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">here in Margate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">hears that there’s new art down by the strand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">rises from the shelter by the toilet <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">and wanders over to the Turner and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">despite its severe yet lightweight presentation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">(“A greyish Russel and Bromley shoe box darling”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">he’s said to have said to Nancy Astor)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">enters the gallery through the opening glasses<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">politely accepts a programme but avoids the lift<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">“a servant vehicle” and carefully ascends the
stairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">and turning takes the door that’s straight ahead
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">and guided by some whim or intuition enters<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">where amidst some precious Turners he<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">staggers as though stabbed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">by the installation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">of the artist<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">Tracey Emin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">The bed she’d slept like a ravaged throne<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">tossed and twisted like some stormy sea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">the coverlet puffed and rumpled<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">grey the sheets and stained so odorous<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">to take your breath away<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">whilst around in in array disorderly<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">amongst the flotsam lay diverse<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">scraps coloured tat and underclothes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">I could go on but I could not<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">it was nothing? Was it not?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">Yet do you know<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">As I left in haste and some distress<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">what I thought?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">this abject stuff<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">who let it out?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">
</span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">Was it I that started all this mess?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><u>February And The Poet In Margate Says There Is
Nothing Here</u><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;">Février est dur</p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">bien sur <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">très dur <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">ah oui<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">Rien
rien<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">Says: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">Oft then when on my couch I lie <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">in restless or in vacant mood no<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">blooms burst on my inward eye<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">only migrant daffodills<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">cut untimely from their beds and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">stuck in jars <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">oblige<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">but<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">this month from Thanett a-comme in reveraunce<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">doubty gens of ilke race and classe <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">from rames-gat and herne baye <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">and alle hamlets in betweene and outer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">(to Margate where was penned wastelande)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">and lay sweete flowres in a shelter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">And they to Dreamland go on helter skelter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">bumper cars big wheel and dipper after<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">grow fat on fish and chips and alcho pops<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">dent the cars and fight the cops<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">unknowing some wordsmith geezer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">at the shelter might find therein<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">or not<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">a metaphor for recent slaughter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">But he turns his back on Dreamland <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">and cant believe his eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">sees Tim Spall pretending<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">to be Turner on the sand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">But they the others travel on to westward cross<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">a hard concrete place that’s unforgiving <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">where no cattle at the end of day <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">trudge homeward slowly o’er the lea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">no jocund daffs do play no tugboat with tin
trays<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">puffs by westminster bridge or children play <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">and where profit and loss and going to shops<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">is all the day<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">to see nothing no-one but talk infanticile<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">whilst the traffic comes and goes <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">sometimes fast but mostly slow <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">on the mobile<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">friends or lovers baby brothers <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">mothers bosses butcher baker candlemaker <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">soldier sailor friend or neighbour <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">safe from warmth or touch or smell or glance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">safe from feeling <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">speaking into a black hole where where alls
smooth and spun <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">
</span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">where nowt gets in and nowt gets out</span></p><p class="Body" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><b>PR Murry</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>4 EMILE</u></span></span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Like a suspended blade</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">That has to descend<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The news came,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And your name cannot now be called<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So that you will hear.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Instead, it will be inscribed<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On the certificates, the obituaries<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And the programmes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You were a wonderful man,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A man of many aspects<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Shining out through many facets<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Like a diamond.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Shining out through words and paint<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Onto paper canvas and walls,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Giving generously to all and for all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And those of us left behind,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Must try to continue to create as best we can,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">With your memory in our minds.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 28.5333px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><b>Patric Cunnane</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAY1zweBy2HCWvyQYyTfQ-6KmuFEmU5mzXd7AiE8yDrf7qFSh0FbteS_aU2GeEgzjZDGbzrHs1-6l99haKnIb8NLVgEnbGabH2WpCaoJzDHySFnhde_V2Q6J50hTLHLNhUmmgWSbLNNyE7zkaczSvQi4u7-YfFeI6mCITTm3214lbW53elziLOs2XJ/s4160/IMG_20210727_211055.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAY1zweBy2HCWvyQYyTfQ-6KmuFEmU5mzXd7AiE8yDrf7qFSh0FbteS_aU2GeEgzjZDGbzrHs1-6l99haKnIb8NLVgEnbGabH2WpCaoJzDHySFnhde_V2Q6J50hTLHLNhUmmgWSbLNNyE7zkaczSvQi4u7-YfFeI6mCITTm3214lbW53elziLOs2XJ/s320/IMG_20210727_211055.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />POETRY
AT THE CORS HOTEL</u></span></b></div>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></b></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">For
Emile<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
poets perform-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">French
windows for a stage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reading
to a willing crew<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">As
waitresses pass through<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">October
in Laugharne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where
Dylan Thomas lived<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Cors Hotel a favourite place<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">To
savour a gentle boozy pace<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">A
new adventure begins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Down
from London, these upstart bards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Set
the night alight, with energy and words<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Later,
round the bar, pints are sunk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Weed
passed round, job well done<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tomorrow
they can see the sights-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tonight
they’ve set the world to rights<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p><i><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></i></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">The
visitors to Laugharne in October 1996 were Emile Sercombe, Berni Cunnane, Sue
Johns and Patric Cunnane</span></i></p><p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><b>Ann and Tony Pattison</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Express steam train to Winchester<br />
Written 1965</u><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the engine that runs on the line<br />
Driver and fireman to keep her on time<br />
Guard blows his whistle and shuts the door<br />
Open the regulator and let her roar!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Gleaming brass and shining green<br />
Hissing steam, a sight to be seen<br />
Pistons moving, crossheads gliding<br />
Big ends revolving and coaches gliding<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Over the points, there’s no waiting<br />
Sixty-five and accelerating<br />
Coal on the fire, steam up full<br />
Running at 70 and still there’s plenty!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Eyes on the water gauge<br />
Eyes on the oil gauge<br />
Eyes on the air gauge<br />
Eyes on the line!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Eyes on everything, running on time<br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Speeding through stations, nearing destination<br />
Into the tunnel, smoke everywhere<br />
Close up the window and hold your breath<br />
Two minutes later, out into fresh air<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Distant signal shows yellow<br />
A touch on the brake<br />
Gently we slow, and passengers wake<br />
Cases reached for and tickets appear<br />
Winchester City drawing near.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Station buildings can now be seen<br />
Paintwork smart and windows clean<br />
A little more brake and shut off steam<br />
Quietly she enters, only seen<br />
<br />
The perfect halt, an excellent driver<br />
A minute for a rest, a very quick breather,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">This is where we leave the train<br />
Driver and fireman take her on again,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Guard blows his whistle, and she roars into life<br />
The road is clear, the signal green<br />
Hissing steam, a sight to be seen! </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="Standard" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
<p style="background: white; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><b>Yan Li</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif"><u>Untitled</u></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p style="margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">You are a daffodil by the lake.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">I am a lotus in the mud.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">No matter where we grow,</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">Wait till we bloom.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">You are a hawk in a cage.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">I am a cock in a shack.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">No matter where we claw,</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">Loud you shriek I crow.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">You are a phoenix in the sky.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">I am a whale in the ocean.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">No matter in air or water,</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">We love our space.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">You are a soldier in battle.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">I am an inmate in jail.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">No matter where we are taken,</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">We long to be free.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">But you are no soldier. Nor I inmate.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">Nor phoenix. Nor whale, </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">Nor hawk. Nor cock.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">Nor lotus. Nor daffodil.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">Just thoughts passing through.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">Dumb in exile. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">A lost mother-tongue.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif">None of us talk.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: large;">
</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Speak. We try. With hands.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><b>John Hurley</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>COLLATERAL DAMAGE</u></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Rocked in Neptune's cradle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">For her final hours<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Now discarded on the beach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">No mourners
friends or flowers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Just another nameless person<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">A lifeless broken reed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Deposited like jetsom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Fleeing terror and mans greed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Some where this little body<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">A mothers arms did enfold<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">As a dodgy ferry foundered<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Caused by owners lust for gold<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">It is called collateral damage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">This child without a stain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">She’s like truth another casualty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Hope the warlords can explain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Will fighters claim a victory?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Do they care who they betray?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Why do Gods mills grind so slowly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Does he listen when they pray?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Still the refugees cross water</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Knowing its dangerous and wide<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">And we have a compassion by pass<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">To bodies washed up by the tide<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">We all came out of Africa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Is this just a repeat?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Has our meddling there caused havoc?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Or could it be the heat?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">We have learned nothing from the past<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">If anything wer’e
madder<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Still a case of blow you Jack<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: large;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Let us pull up the ladder.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background: white; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><b>Kevin Morris</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;"><u>How Sweet and Sad Was the Bird.</u></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">How sweet and sad was the bird</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">I heard</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">As I stood at my open window.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">When I go</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">To the pub to meet my friends,</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">We will pretend</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">That there is no end;</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Or at least hide for a while</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">In the smile</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Produced by drink,</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Which makes men think</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">That all</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">This will last.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">But I shall recollect the bird’s call</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">As I stood at my open window</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">And know</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">That all</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">That sings must pass.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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