06 Mithago Craze and Roath Writers
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Welcome to the sixth episode of Dickens and Quips!
This week we have Mithago Craze on the show and I shall be reading from To The Sofa and Back Again by Roath Writers
Roath Writers are @roathwriters on Twitter.
We are at
Twitter: @dickensandquips
Instagram: @dickensandquips
Email: [email protected]
Prompt for this week is "Ball Gown" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem.
Featured poems:
A Prayer Is a Beautiful Thing
-though some may see in it an echo
A palimpsest of other, broken beliefs.
They may see gold-plated faith or
trust misplaced in midnight
power long-gone
or worse,
corrupt.
My prayer-book is different
Mine are love-letters to hope,
Gratitude to libraries of humanity
A patronage.
I pray to poetry groups.
I pray to book clubs, dedicated
To slowing down
time,
To taking a seam ripper to the straight threads of sentences
and the curved loops of letters
and seeing how the garment was made
I pray for their patience.
I pray for their keen eyes,
Their strong hands flicking pages in
The dead of the night.
I congregate in the silence
Of the line-breaks
and indents,
And as the ministers preach
Meaning into every comma,
Depth into every unfinished
I sign my love-letter with a kiss
And find their words guide me,
Map my (spiritual or not) path to the
X
Dervla O'Brien
Changeling
Fairy child,
where did you come from?
Is there a kingdom that misses you?
Who is the child
in the court of the Fairies?
She wears your dresses and
spins around twirling
with the Queen of the Elven
as they dance with the moon.
Ancient eyed child,
who has seen and knows all,
your soul windows green
when the others have brown.
Your hair softly sea waves
while the others wear springs.
Their laughter like starlight,
your silence the dawn.
Changeling child,
who cries in the darkness,
you dream of the fairies,
the dancing and feasting
with creatures so
stunning, their brightness
blinds you. Unable to speak
to tell their story, you hide
behind smiles and eyes
older than time.
Outsider child,
whose sadness drowns hope
don’t you know it will change?
You will be the story,
the changeling who lived.
You will float down stairs
that are chandelier lit
in a boa of feathers.
Embracing your faeness,
you will sing out the twilight
and welcome the darkness,
twirling for the moon.
To know that something inside me is still alive
Dee Dickens
Both available in To The Sofa and Back Again by Roath Writers
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12.5 Announcement
Hello everyone. As is said in the announcement, I have been quite unwell over the last few weeks, so am going to take a rest and go on hiatus until the new year.
Thank you so much for all your support so far, I am grateful to each and every one of you.
Have a great December and I will see you all in January.
Make good choices, write great poetry.
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12 Hannah Edge Collection Release Special!
Welcome to the twelfth episode of Dickens and Quips!
This week we have a Hannah Edge special on the show and I shall be reading from her upcoming collection Those Days, These Days along with a bit of Anne Sexton.
You can preorder Hannah's ebook here and I will update these show notes when the paperback is available for preorder too!
Find Hannah at
observeandmuse_ehjee on Insta
@edge_hannah on twitter
We are at
Twitter: @dickensandquips
Instagram: @dickensandquips
Email: [email protected]
Prompt for this week is "Football" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem.
11 Connor Sansby and Hannah Lowe
Welcome to the eleventh episode of Dickens and Quips!
It is a bumper episode this week with some juicy language but it is well worth listening to us go down some amazing poetry rabbit holes.
This week we have Whisky and Beards own Connor Sansby on the show and I shall be reading from Chick by Hannah Lowe
Find Connor at Connor Sansby Wordstuff on Facebook
@whiskybeards on Insta
@whiskybeards on Twitter
Whisky and Beards Publishing on Facebook
Hannah Lowe can be found here
And on twitter @hannahlowepoet
We are at
Twitter: @dickensandquips
Instagram: @dickensandquips
Email: [email protected]
Prompt for this week is "all bears are gud boisl" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem.
Featured collections:
Chick by Hannah Lowe
So You Want To Be a Writer by Charles Bukowski
10 Seterah Ebrahimi and Carrie Etter
Welcome to the tenth episode of Dickens and Quips!
This week we have Seterah Ebrahimi on the show and I shall be reading from Imagined Sons by Carrie Etter
You can buy Seterah's pamphlet In My Arms here
You can buy Carrie Etter's Imagined Sons here
Carrie Etter can be found here twitter.com/carrie_etter
We are at
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Instagram: @dickensandquips
Email: [email protected]
Prompt for this week is "I wait and wonder" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem.
Featured collections/poems:
Imagined Sons by Carrie Etter
Skeleton by Rosemary McLeish
Line that makes you go OOOOOH!
Imagined Sons 29: The Friend (Part 4)
“I press my lips to each letter of his name”
09 Dervla O'Brien and Joe Thomas
Welcome to the ninth episode of Dickens and Quips!
This week we have Dervla O'Brien on the show and I shall be reading from Cake, Liberty and Other Inexplicable Phenomena by Joe Thomas
Find Dervla at
DervlaOBrien on Insta
DervlaOBrien on Twitter
The festival she was talking about is accepting proposals here
Joe Thomas can be found @Joefishthomas on twitter and insta and Joe Thomas Writer on Facebook
You can buy his book Here
We are at
Twitter: @dickensandquips
Instagram: @dickensandquips
Email: [email protected]
Prompt for this week is "sticky floors" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem.
Thank you to Roger Waldron for your poem this week.
Invite
inviting me round
to talk overyour
world beating veggie lasagna
you apologise for the kitchen
carefuldon’t stick to the floor
we talk about
being married
that B&B in Scarborough
where they askedif we wanted
dessertwhich turned out
to be Pears in sticky Rice Pudding
you asked
if we’d ever be a pair
againyou asked if I would like
puddingaftersetc
I declined all 3careful not to stick
to your floorwondering
what makesyou think like that
Featured poets:
Paige Lewis
Sarah Kay