My Place or Yours
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| Blog Name: | My Place or Yours |
| Url: | http://www.myplaceoryours.org.uk |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | poetry, writing, literature |
| Description: | The My Place or Yours blog is a new kind of writer residency from Apples & Snakes, the UK’s leading organization for performance poetry. Five poets are writing about a place which they are inspired about and that will enable them to explore new ideas and create new poetry. |
| Popularity: | 117 Followers |
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It’s not over till the thin lady sings
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The My Place or Yours residencies are drawing to a close: Charlie Jordan’s showcase in Birmingham marks (I think) the last physical expression of our mostly virtual project. West Brom Words is goin... |
Would the real Wife of Bafa please speak up!
| It wasn’t difficult to release her from the page. Chaucer’s did that six hundred years before. The challenge was to inhabit the character’s voice. How would I get a live audience to believe that th... |
Somewhere between page and stage
| As a regular act on the performance poetry scene, I found myself naturally creating pieces that could work dramatically but never set out to do so. By the late 90’s, my poetical manifesto was, and ... |
Here’s one I prepared earlier…and earlier…
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At this stage, I’d love to share an early draft of a new Canterbury tale with innovative use of setting; be as brave as Jay Bernard sharing a raw longhand manuscript embroidered with colourful note... |
Lo Canterbury!
| I’m Canterbury Laureate till the end of this year and have just received Arts Council funding to rework Chaucer’s Tales (working title Roving Mic). The original text uses setting on several levels.... |
My Place
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Between London and Canterbury, before the Thames becomes the North Sea, sits the literary capital of the universe: Gravesend. It’s where Pip, Herbert and Magwitch rowed in Great Expectations; wher... |
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