02 Joe Thomas and Christina Thatcher
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Dickens and Quips - Poetry Pod
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Welcome to the second episode of Dickens and Quips!
This week we have Joe Thomas on the show and I shall be reading from How to Carry Fire by Christina Thatcher.
Find Sam at @joefishthomas on Twitter and Insta
Christina Thatcher is @writetoempower on Twitter.
We are at
Twitter: @dickensandquips
Instagram: @dickensandquips
Email: [email protected]
Prompt for this week is "fire extinguisher" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem.
Featured poems:
An Improper Kindness
Worth Telling
What If
All available in How to Carry Fire by Christina Thatcher.
Supermarket by Dee Dickens
I’m on the floor in the grocery store
howling.
Great globbing
sobbing
snotty trails on my jumper.
Everyone has been so nice.
It’s just that
my brave face is so damn tired.
My arms ache from wiping their tears.
My throat burns with words unsaid.
I make tea and hope they
don't taste the salt water.
Supermarket guy comes over to ask,
Is everything alright?
No, supermarket guy, everything is not alright.
I want Yorkshire pudding,
and I can’t find the batter mix.
He’s smiling, but his eyes say confused,
there's a tilt of a head
from a passing old woman telling me
I should just make my own.
I can’t remember how.
I don’t know the ingredients.
I can’t focus on anything
but the emptiness of my belly.
Except that I need to have
Yeast.
To know that something inside me is still alive.
Scrimshaw by Eley Williams
Imaginary friend: by Joe Thomas
I.
I’m an imaginary friend
that’s been thought into existence
or maybe you wished hard enough.
I don’t know. You tell me.
I’m the madman who fell from the sky,
and before anyone says it, I’m not him.
Mr love of my life and Mr man of my dreams
aren’t nearly chaotic enough.
Mr Right’s entrance runs too smoothly
to come down to Earth with a crash.
How boring.
No, I’m not here to be your first choice
but I know what
“I like you…
a lot…
like more than a friend…
but not…
you get me?”
means when I hear it.
Don’t worry. It worked.
I’ve been doing this
long enough to know
we wouldn’t be here
talking right now if it hadn’t.
II.
If you’re interested
here are the rules.
Take food as a given.
If you stalk my social media,
if I find a heart react
on a selfie I took with my cat
because I’m in the picture
you’re doing it wrong.
If you scroll past my pictures,
“Oh my god!
He’s so cute!
I LOVE him!”
and you didn’t mean the dog
but come out with “I want in,”
you’re brave, I’ll give you that much…
If you try to make me choose
“Who is it going to be?
Friend 1
Or friend 2?”
when ‘universal’
by definition means:
“BOTH OF YOU.”
I’m sorry,
it’s not going to work out.
III.
In return, I can only give you a hug
one you can still feel long after it’s finished
one that clings on and will not let you go.
If I do it right, it should squeeze
every “You’re not as good as you think
you are” thought until they pop
I write you a pretentious poem
which, at the end of the day,
is just a glorified shitpost
that I crafted to look like a love letter
because I don’t know how else to say it.
And yes, I do it better than most
of your real friends ever could
We keep our streak going.
We let months go by
between conversations
which last for two messages,
an unspoken “You didn’t have to answer
but thank you for coming back.”
No, being left on read is not rude,
we haven’t run out of small talk
It’s an electric “Until next time
Love from an imaginary friend
who was lucky enough to come to life.”
Prompt for this week is Fire Extinguisher
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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.
email: [email protected]
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Dee:
twitter: @thepontypoet
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facebook: facebook.com/deedickenswriter
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
Twitter: @dickensandquips
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