tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32599477480428482662024-03-04T23:59:53.794-08:00Commonplace - Maria TaylorMaria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-60132316009217448962019-05-02T08:28:00.001-07:002019-05-02T08:28:54.197-07:00May 2019: Comings and Goings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So I am about to be walloped with some heavy duty marking tomorrow. A perfect opportunity then to pretend it's not happening and write a blog post!<br />
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This post is mainly about April, but I think under the circumstances I've done pretty well by writing on May 2nd. And yes, where is the year going? But I have a habit of saying this and I suppose it's time to write about where April actually went.<br />
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At the beginning of April we went on a short break to New York, not directly poetry related but let's face it - it's a poetry city! I'd been swotting up on my New York poets beforehand, reading poems and such like and attending Martin Stannard's intriguing talk on the NY poets at the end of March in Nottingham. Frank O'Hara has long been a favourite. I like the quirky detail and the ability to weave through different registers in the same poem and the beautiful melancholy of some of the poetry. Maybe if you live in a city where everything happens, everything happens in your poetry. That, however, is not to discourage the poets of the East Midlands - everything happens here too.<br />
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I digress. Or not. Because arriving home jet lagged there was a highly appropriately timed copy of a new HappenStance anthology on the doormat, <a href="https://happenstancepress.com/index.php/component/hikashop/product/47788-coming-going-a">'Comings and Goings: Poems for Journeys,' </a>edited by Nell Nelson. This anthology features a poem by every single HappenStance poet, barring the odd exception, dealing in some way with the theme of travel. I have two poems in there. One involves a train journey and the other a horse - the horse is poetic licence of course. I certainly can't ride one, but I may have had a pony ride at some point. You know it really would make a lovely gift for a travelly, poety person. The book, NOT a pony. I know I'm expected to say that, but it's true. Nell's selections are very indicative of the enjoyable poems she publishes. All that, plus an 'orse.<br />
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I went to John Harvey's reading at Five Leaves last week. Again, not someone I'd read an awful lot by, but my word I was really taken with his poetry. He has a<a href="http://www.shoestring-press.com/2019/03/aslant/"> new book out with Shoestring, 'Aslant,'</a> and his reading was quite something. There is also really impressive photography in the book by Molly E. Boiling, who I'm pretty sure in thinking is his daughter.<br />
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'Comings and Goings' was my poetry book companion on the 10:19 to St. Pancras last Sunday. Obviously it's a train journey kind of book! The train was packed and it was early on a Sunday. I wasn't exactly thrilled, I wanted some space and a bit of peace in the morning. So to cheer up I made myself 'Poet in Residence' of Coach D and gave myself permission to write some poetry and well as read. Despite having the elbow space of a baby ant. I was funded with a bottle of Ribena and a chewy bar. I was on my way to perform at the Afterbirth Poetry Festival, which was an afternoon of readings organised by Victoria Richards and held at the Wanstead Tap in London. This was a celebration of poems about parenting. From the good to the not so good experiences. So I made myself get on a train and get out of the East Mids and actually READ in public, after a reclusive break from readings - ok, apart from the odd single poem here and there. But still, you know what I mean.<br />
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The venue was a highly cool place under some railway arches often used for gigs. It had that perfect Eastenders rumble every time a train went past, as if a plot twist was just around the corner. It was just one of those events that was a pleasure from start to finish, and this was fab as I didn't know anyone at the start and by the end had met so many friendly people. Victoria was a brilliant warm and energetic host who made the afternoon come together perfectly. The other readers were: Leah Larwood, Judi Walsh, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Mel Pryor, Ali Thurm, Jenny Pagdin, Steve Rogers, Sarah Westcott, Katy Wareham Morris and Victoria Richards herself. I think everyone had moments in those poems, to laugh or cry, but certainly to reflect on experiences of parenting.<br />
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Victoria's poetry is published as part of the <a href="http://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/primers%20volume%20four.html">Nine Arches Press 'Primers' series </a>- this very day I think!<br />
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I am reading at the end of May, on the 30th to be exact, at Five Leaves Bookshop. This will be a reading with D.A. Prince and the focus will be on the pamphlet, as we've both had pamphlets by HappenStance. Now, if I'm switched on by the end of May, writing more generally about the great wonderment that is the poetry pamphlet would be a good topic for a blog post. Without a nine month gap. "Pray for me," says the long suffering blog.<br />
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P.S. today is UK local Government Elections day. Voted.<br />
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<br />Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-53920951758687377872019-04-16T13:15:00.000-07:002019-04-16T13:15:51.969-07:00April 2019 - Saboteur Awards<br />
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I am very happy to share the news that I’ve been shortlisted
for ‘Best Reviewer’ for the Saboteur Awards this year! Especially so when there are some very strong reviewers out there. It has also motivated me to sit down
and write a post that I’ve been writing in my head for a long while now. So
thanks to the Saboteur Awards I am now (finally) updating my blog!</div>
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The reason for writing this post is to explain the work I do
as Reviews Editor for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Under the Radar</i>,
alongside Jane Commane. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a role I
took up 5 years ago. I’d been writing reviews for a few years by that point,
and had pieces published for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Times
Literary Supplement</i> and various online poetry sites, such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sphinx</i>. The first <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">TLS</i> piece was back in May 2009, when the twins were only a year old
and I doubted very much I was ‘clever’ enough to have anything accepted by
them. I worked against that feeling and my first review on an academic book on
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Let’s get one thing straight. Reviews are hard work. I’ve
worked many long hours making notes, reading, scribbling, typing and editing
many different versions of the same piece. I’ve worked for money and I’ve
worked for books as payment. My guiding principle was that if I wanted to
improve as a poet, I’d better darn read some poetry books closely and have
opinions on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not someone who
chooses to write ‘slasher’ reviews, because that isn’t my style. My role is to
tune into a poet’s style and attempt to get under the skin of the poetry
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relies on a strong team of reviewers, and we have our regulars such as Pam
Thompson, Jonathan Davidson, Deborah Tyler-Bennett, Alison Brackenbury and often
me! From time to time we’ve had reviews from others such as Kim Moore, Peter
Carpenter, Dzifa Benson, Kathleen Bell, David Clarke, Charles Whalley, D.A.
Prince and John Foggin. For the next issue Josephine Corcoran is joining us
too. I have a read of the reviews they’ve drafted and edit them, and Jane has a
final read as General Editor. We stipulate that the reviews should contain
plenty of quotations from their primary texts in order to give our readers a
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Most issues generally feature female reviewers, and while
that wasn’t the plan, it’s encouraging to support women reviewers. We know the
background of the usual suspects in critical writing if we’re talking
stereotypes. Regular readers of this blog (if they can remember who they are,
it’s been a while!) will know <a href="http://miskinataylor.blogspot.com/2017/11/november-2017-whats-in-name.html">about me</a> and my background.</div>
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Ideally, I’d like to write more in the future on how I go
about approaching a review and what makes a good one in my opinion. The next
issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Under the Radar</i> will feature
my review on Raymond Antrobus and Gaia Holmes, as well as a reissued complete
works from Carcanet of the Greek Poet George Seferis.</div>
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My last review was on books by Peter Raynard, Amy Key and
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which is <a href="http://ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-god-of-faulty-circumstance-maria.html">magically here</a>.</div>
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And for good measure here are two published on <a href="http://www.thecompassmagazine.co.uk/maria-rev/">The Compass</a> and <a href="http://everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-chemistry-of-holding-review-by.html">Everybody’s Reviewing</a>, from a little while ago. </div>
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Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-25625867930556684752018-12-06T09:38:00.000-08:002019-04-16T13:26:23.338-07:00December 2018: Is Poetry a Winter Sport?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">t could be said autumn and winter are the poetry seasons. Do I
even have to mention Keats and autumn? There's something about the crispness of
the air and the clichéd and adjective-ridden fiery, glowing, crimson,
burnished, twisted, bewitching, fading leaves that also contributes to this
poetic mood. I know this for a fact not only because of several ill-starred
Romantic poets, but also from opinions on social media. Therefore it’s obviously
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Which could be one of the reasons I’m blogging again, either that
or I’m trying to avoid a stack of marking. December is here and
for many poets and readers that means thinking about their favourite books of
the year. What year you may ask? I haven't blogged since January. If only some of the politicians of the world had kept a low profile...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This summer in England was one of the hottest I could remember.
During the summer months I find my brain doesn’t engage with writing poetry
very well. I tend to write critical pieces and reviews, but not so many creative pieces. Also summer is holiday time
so we’re busy travelling and outdoors a lot. There were a few interesting things poetry wise. I had a poem in the <i>In Transit: Poems of Travel</i> anthology published by The Emma Press and edited by Sarah Jackson and Tim Youngs. In July I read a
poem of mine at the Magma launch in London and happened to get swept up in the
Anti-Trump demonstrations, so it was an eventful day all round. Here is a <a href="https://magmapoetry.com/archive/magma-71/poems/and-there-she-was-in-the-shrunken-apartment-like-joan-crawford-toy-dog-on-her-lap/">link to my Magma poem</a>. </span><br />
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My new poetry 'thing' is form, either my own designs or strangely the more conventional approaches to form. I am having a go at the sonnet form today, in particular the Petrarchan variety. I think I need the sense of 'playing' again with form and line. </span>This is odd because normally I can't be doing with full rhyme (see what I did there). It might not get anywhere, who cares. It's been interesting having a go. There are some poems building up and, rather like the average cat, they're standing at the open door not sure whether to go out in the world or stay inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Also I got a bit overwhelmed by the constant influx of social media into my daily life. Someone once rightly said the effect of too much social media is like being trapped in a cement mixer. I've not been as active for sanity. </span><br />
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I'll end with a few wintry lines from Fiona Moore's poem 'Overwinter' from her collection <i>The Distal Point</i> published by Happen<i>Stance </i>Press. I love how she manages to darn well capture that odd time of year, now coming up, when dark eats up the day. It could be grim but her tone is optimistic. It's hopeful:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">embedded deep within this season</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">when dark overplaits the day's pale strand.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Change may come while nothing seems to change.</span><br />
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Maybe I'm writing this post because it's January and I should, but one thing's for certain - I'm not going to yammer on about resolutions. It's January the 17th and we're all beyond that now. However, I did see a post by Josephine Corcoran where she mentioned something about trying to keep up to date with blogging at least once a week. It's a lovely idea, but not sure I can keep up. I can't even keep up with ruddy Twitter - and that's only 140 characters. Even Donnie Trump manages that (sadly). This time last year I put up a vigorous post about sending out regularly and such like...but didn't really send out very much. Because guess what - you can't force it if you know you're not ready. I sent out the grand total of five or six times last year. At one point a few years ago I was sending out six before breakfast or something.<br />
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Instead, let me talk about what I'm <i>learning</i> at the moment as opposed to what I'm <i>achieving</i>. I'm teaching Creative Writing at DMU and now for a term at Warwick University. Teaching also means learning. I have been busy making lots of new resources and reading work by poets I'm less familiar with, as well as re-reading old favourites. My word, I ended up falling in love with 'Avenue A' and 'Now That I am in Madrid' and I Can Think' by Frank O'Hara last Sunday. I digress. Part of the job involved sitting in on one of David Morley's seminars in December to meet the new students. I LOVED it. I felt like I wanted to read and write and read and write and then remembered I was meant to be the teacher. Not a bad thing though. Everyone has their words of wisdom of course, but here's another newsflash - as a poet I don't think you should <i>take</i> yourself seriously, but be <i>overtaken </i>by writing.There is nothing like getting caught up in the jolly artwork stage of writing a poem. I come across lots of learners with enthusiasm and this fires me as well. This is a good thing as there have been times last year when poetry and I were not the honeymooners we used to be. Now we're holding hands again. Relief.<br />
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Wednesday is my free day and it's reading and writing day - hurrah! I work part-time but once you factor the little things like life, family, colds, lack of sleep, Lego, exercise classes (I can do a mean plank I'll have you know) and so on it doesn't leave much time for concentrated writing time. Wednesdays are a good start.<br />
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Nine Arches Press and I have a long history of working and publishing together. One enchanted evening eight years ago this very month, I met them for the first time. I am really proud of Jane Commane's achievements with the press and was really happy when Jacqueline Saphra's Nine Arches collection 'All My Mad Mothers was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize. When you have seen someone work their ruddy socks off over eight years, publishing, editing, organising readings, giving up hours and hours of their time and one of NAP's poets does really well you can't help but smile. Good for them.<br />
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<br />Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-73100244917406379582017-11-02T03:58:00.001-07:002017-11-02T03:58:44.674-07:00November 2017: What's in a Name?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Typical conversation:<br />
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<i>Person: You're not foreign!</i><br />
<i>Me: Well I don't have a accent and I was born and raised here, but my family is Cypriot.</i><br />
<i>Person: You mean fully Cypriot? Isn't that in Greece?</i><br />
<i>Me: No and both my parents were born there.</i><br />
<i>Person: Oh, so why are you a Taylor?</i><br />
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Good question. When I started sending out poetry at the end of 2009 I was faced with a dilemma. Should I send out under my maiden name or go for Taylor? Would it matter? After all, if people read the actual poetry then they might figure out there was a different culture influencing some of the poems. Plus my maiden surname was a total mouthful, the question 'how do you spell that?' had followed me around all my life. Plus to complicate things further, I had two maiden surnames, because my dad got things a bit mixed up. Maria Dimiti on the birth certificate and Maria Orthodoxou on the passport. The solicitors dealt with it eventually. At one point I wondered if I existed at all. I thought about it and sent off as Taylor. People could spell Taylor (most of the time). Job done.<br />
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I kind of half regret that now. Along the way I've had a few people assuming that I'm a 'nice' middle-class English lady who probably went to a 'nice' school. (LOL as they say). I once had a chat with an editor (no-one I actually worked with directly) who said I should make my ethnicity part of my mission statement as a poet, but I never did.<br />
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Recently I've been in contact with the poet Anthony Anaxagorou as he's interested in putting together a book on British Cypriot identity. Thinking I might have the odd idea to share I realised I couldn't shut up on the phone. I wondered why I hadn't written more poetry about my background - to be fair I've written a few. Then I thought, bloody hell I need to get some of this out of my system. I should also speak to family members who remember Cyprus pre-1960, when British Colonial rule ended. My father came to England in 1961. In the late fifties he peeled vegetables (reluctantly) for British squaddies in Dhekelia, which still is a Sovereign base to this day. My maternal Grandma was a performance poet in her day. Seriously. Despite being a widow who should have kept her head down, she was popular at wedding parties for her spontaneous rhyming powers. It's part of a tradition called 'Chattista,' - of getting up and making up rhyming couplets on the spot. I don't know if any of this is a poetry thing or a personal thing, but this project has meant it's something I'm going to finally explore.<br />
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I'll leave you with this excellent interview with George Tardios by Starvros Karayianni. George helped to set up Arvon with Ted Hughes. He came over as a kid in the 50s which was a pivotal time in Cypriot-British relations. Was very tickled by the fact his yiayia ran a brothel! Very contrary to the stereotype of the good, god-fearing Cypriot woman who does her cross 300 times a day - stereotypes, huh?<br />
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<br />Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-72968500080500016182017-08-20T14:14:00.000-07:002017-08-20T14:30:17.509-07:00August 2017: It's Not You, It's Me...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Commonplace Blog: What's going on? You never write or call anymore?<br />
Maria Taylor: Oh, but you know how I feel about you...<br />
CB: That's not good enough. What have you been up to?<br />
MT: Stuff.<br />
CB: I don't want to hear about the other stuff, just poetry stuff.<br />
MT: Well. I had a few outings on other blogs.<br />
CB: You mean you've been seeing other blogs and didn't even bother with me!! *sheds tears*<br />
MT: Yes. You can read these posts on <a href="https://kimmoorepoet.wordpress.com/2017/02/05/sunday-poem/">Kim Moore's</a> blog and an interview I did with Maria Isakova Bennett on <a href="http://humag.co/features/maria-taylor">The Honest Ulsterman</a>. And there was <a href="https://johnfogginpoetry.com/2017/01/08/gems-revisited-maria-taylor/">John Foggin's</a> blog post a while back.<br />
CB: I see. *Sighs and composes self* So what else. Have you actually been writing anything?<br />
MT: A bit.<br />
CB: Have you sent anything out, like normal poets are meant to do?<br />
MT: One or two things. I have a poem in an anthology about pubs coming out in the autumn, edited by Helen Mort and Stuart Maconie.I have a few poems about to be published in 'Poetry Salzburg' and a poem featuring a certain Donny Trump back in '67 meeting an unimpressed flowerchild on '<a href="https://newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/neu-post-truth-poetics-day-fifty-one-maria-taylor/">New Boots and Pantisocracies'</a>.<br />
CB: Oh, now you tell me! *Huffs*<br />
MT: Yes and I've also got a sub on a 'maybe' pile somewhere. So I'm bracing myself for a possible rejection.<br />
CB: Well now you know how I feel.<br />
MT: I never wanted to hurt your feelings.<br />
CB: *sniffs* Well have you done any readings lately like other poets do?<br />
MT: A few. None coming up as yet. There was one back in June at Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham.<br />
CB: That could have been a whole freakin' post! Why didn't you tell me.<br />
MT: Sorry.<br />
CB: Have you been seeing other social networks? Break it to me, I'll cope. Somehow.<br />
MT: I'll be honest with you. I've spent a lot of time with Instagram.<br />
CB: *Furious* Oh I see. You trade me in for a younger, flashier model! What's so wrong about an old fashioned, RELIABLE blog post!<br />
MT: Ok, I'll try and see you more often.<br />
CB: YOU SAY THAT EVERY BLOODY TIME!<br />
MT: Yeah I know. Look. I'm working on a review of two pamphlets and a collection.<br />
CB: That's better. Proper poetry stuff. How's the pamphlet going?<br />
MT: It's actually going to be taught on an Bath Spa Uni course led by Carrie Etter next year which was a pleasant surprise. There have been a few reviews since the one on Matthew Stewart's blog. A really lovely one in Orbis. Plus some equally lovely ones on the <a href="http://www.sphinxreview.co.uk/index.php/49-maria-taylor-instructions-for-making-me-3-opoi">OPOI </a>site and one by Tim Love, on his <a href="http://litrefsreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/instructions-for-making-me-by-maria.html">Lit Ref</a>s site. There's one coming up in 'The North' in the next issue. I think I've told you some of this.<br />
CB: Whatever. You don't seem to remember what you've told me these days.<br />
MT: And I'll be hosting the September Shindig in Leicester on the 25th. We're very excited to have Rebecca Bird and Matthew Stewart reading.<br />
CB: Glad to hear it. I don't expect you'll be telling me.<br />
MT: I'll do my best.<br />
CB: Can you write another poem now, like NORMAL poets do. Instead of Instagramming everything in sight. You're a poet, not an amateur photographer!<br />
MT: I think you can do all sorts of things alongside poetry. I was commissioned to write a monologue based on Adrian Mole in April by the University of Leicester. I loved it. Did I tell you I wrote a short story recently?<br />
CB. You. Wrote. A. Short. Story. PROSE! You wrote PROSE. I don't know who you are anymore.<br />
MT: Yes and...hello. Are you there?<br />
CB: *SILENCE*<br />
MT: Hello? Hello?Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-33528382207491431122017-04-21T07:42:00.000-07:002017-04-21T07:57:33.534-07:00April 2017 - 'Believe me. Stories are real.' - John Foggin and NaPoWriMo<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I am not procrastinating. I am living. I am trying to
survive! Nearly five months since my last blog entry and here I am. I am doing
NaPoWriMo, where you're meant to write a poem everyday in April, and apart from a few blips
have managed most days. Some are bad, some have legs and may run somewhere. Hopefully not into a wall. The photo above depicts one of my doodling daydreaming
moments in which I cover all four of my feelings on writing poetry at the moment. </div>
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I'm going to break my blogging silence with a poem by John Foggin. John
is a friend. He is very dapper. He smokes roll-ups and makes his own books. He
seems to be in a constant state of exploration; travelling across challenging
terrain, going on residentials, writing poems, standing back and
contemplating the view. I know him from my jaunts to Writing Days in Sheffield. He won last year’s Smith/Doorstop pamphlet collection
and, they thought, no let’s have a book not a pamphlet! That's how great he is. Here's a poem from
that collection, <i>Much Possessed</i>, which I loved. It's painful. It’s about a parent hearing
the news of an adult child’s suicide.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">It was a morning like this</span></h4>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">a
Sunday morning. The sun shone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">It
was July.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a> It was a morning like this,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">your
ex-wife at the back door,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">and
why would she tell you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">your
son was dead, or had died,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">or
had been in an accident<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">on
a morning like this still<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">not
fully woken, a morning of sun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">to
drive into Chapeltown to drive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">to
a police station that’s called <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">The
Old Police Station now, that’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">a
bijou gastropub but then was just<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">a
police station full of Sunday morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">sadness,
and a morning something<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">like
this and two young coppers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">who
thought we’d need somewhere<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">quiet
at the back which turned out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">to
smell of smoke, that had a pool table<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">and
coffee rings, and no-one knew<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">how
to start or what to ask but<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">it
was a morning much like this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">they
asked if we knew a tower block<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">behind
the Merrion Centre or if<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">we
had a connection to a tower block<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">and
a ring with a skull and a brown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">leather
case and did we know if<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">our
son had friends in a tower block<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">behind
the Merrion Centre and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">we
might as well have been asked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">about
tree rings or chaos theory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">or
fractals on a July morning and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">one
young copper saying that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">he
didn’t think it made sense<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">for
cannabis to be illegal and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">what
harm did it do really and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">how
it wasted everybody’s time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">and
I don’t know why I’d remember<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">that
except it was a morning like this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">I
learned what waste might mean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A month or so ago, I asked John Foggin for this
poem to share on my blog. I keep going back to it. Maybe because I actually
experience the sensations within the poem; it seems to capture a terrible,
dizzying moment when life is turned over. The ending is perhaps the only firm sensation to be experienced, you 'come-to' as a reader here. It's a painful realisation though. Elsewhere, I feel a sense of disorientation whenever
I read the poem. Skillfull as well as a 'spontaneous overflow' of feeling. This poem deals with the exact moment when something
terrible is conveyed. It’s not a poem of reflection, it’s about being plunged
straight into the moment. This is ironic as the poet <i>is</i> reflecting. The words create a sense of being in a maelstrom. </div>
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To me this poem captures a physical
sensation of suddenly losing your balance and needing to hold onto something,
whatever you’ve got. I find the mention of those concrete places, like the
repeated Merrion Centre, like driftwood. But they’re not permanent or indeed supportive, places
change:</div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">The
Old Police Station now, that’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">a
bijou gastropub but then was just<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">a
police station full of Sunday morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">sadness,</span></div>
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Notice how
the building is wiped out as soon as it’s mentioned, ‘The Old Police Station
now’ that ‘now’ is the ‘now’ of the past. We’re time-travelling in two
directions at once.You can do that in a poem. What's real is no longer tangible. The tenses also convey that
sense of disorientation, ‘<span style="line-height: 115%;">your
son was dead, or had died,’ things are always shifting.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">It’s
been said John is a landscape poet. He doesn’t often ‘do’ urban places. To me
this is a terrific landscape poem, not just for the urban references, but for
the sense of personal landscape, the inner map if you like, being challenged
and altered forever. Thank you John, for allowing me to share this fabulous
poem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In other news...I am behind in coming up-to-date with my own
poetic dealings. I appreciate this is mainly of some importance to me and not
the world. My aim is to use the blog as a cross between scrapbook and poetic
journal. Poetry is a place I go to in my head right now, as I haven’t been to
as many readings as I could have done. That does not mean I won’t be back. I
have quite a few readings of my own coming up soon! I am going to aim to write in little bites rather than cover the lot.</div>
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Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-27761164771146262232017-01-01T11:28:00.001-08:002017-01-01T11:31:21.636-08:00January 2017 - Resolutions and Reviews.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A short post. 2016 is over. 2016 was a strange year and perhaps we'll know what it all meant someday. I've decided to write some new year resolutions as a way of getting myself back on the poetic horse. I haven't sent out any poems to magazines since July. My writing needs some focus. So without any further ado here we go...<br />
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1. Give myself permission to write even if it's not very good. Eventually I might hit on something. Write at different times of the day and in different places and locations.<br />
2. Not abandon drafts or have very long breaks on individuals poems, so as not to lose momentum.<br />
3. Keep bloody well reading. Contemporary poetry. Not contemporary poetry. Not poetry. Prose. Non-fiction. Poetry magazines even. (That's a joke of course, I know that's important).<br />
4. Less bloody social networking. Facebook is the kiss of death. A great may of my favourite poets post little or aren't on any networks. Go figure. <a href="http://robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/2016/12/31/giving-up-facebook-for-at-least-a-month/">Robin Houghton</a> says it best on her blog.<br />
5. Actually send out poems. Why? Because in order to send out you have to have poems completed to the best of your ability. It's not about being published, it's about discipline and keeping going. At least once every couple of months if not more. Be productive!<br />
6. Be interested in things! Enthusiasm is the kiss of life! Lots of !!!<br />
7. Go out more, (not pub or shops). Go out more where there's rocks, green things, sky. Breathe in and ponder.<br />
8. Go out to more readings. Listen. Learn. Love. Or not love, but have an opinion.<br />
9. Continue to share poems and poets I love. Ok, this doesn't contradict number 4. I share things I like on Twitter anyway. It's the difference between using the networks to share poems and using them to watch a 3 minute film clip of a Polar bear jogging around an ice floe wearing a party hat or something.<br />
10. There should be a 10 after all, it's a nice round number. Poetry is my friend. Things are confusing at best, poetry is a good place to hang out and it's a satisfying and productive place to be. Always be thinking of the next poem.<br />
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I hope these resolutions are useful for you too. Also, if anyone felt like adding some decent ones of their own that would be good.<br />
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The other day I came across two very encouraging reviews of my pamphlet. This one by <a href="http://www.sphinxreview.co.uk/index.php/reviews/opoi-reviews-2016/717-maria-taylor-instructions-for-making-me">Charlotte Gann </a> and one by <a href="http://litrefsreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/instructions-for-making-me-by-maria.html">Tim Love</a> on his Litrefs Reviews site. Tim wrote things about my poems that I hadn't noticed myself. This is good motivation.<br />
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Let's get going.<br />
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<br />Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-9249548498290854062016-12-08T04:22:00.003-08:002016-12-08T10:59:27.643-08:00December 2016: Looking Back on 'Poetry in Aldebugh' <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Coming back to blog writing after an absence of a few months is like going home after a very long time away. It's got used to its own emptiness, there's only a refrigerator hum, but there's a huge pile of letters on the mat that need a reply. So that's what I'll try and do. <a href="http://roguestrands.blogspot.co.uk/">Matthew Stewart </a>who is a terrific poet and prolific blogger has inspired me to get back on the blog horse. So here I am. Trotting. He's also written a lovely <a href="http://roguestrands.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/out-of-body-experiences-maria-taylors.html">review</a> of my pamphlet too. Thanks, Matthew!<br />
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I want to write about my recent(ish) trip to Aldeburgh. I know I write about the place every autumn, but it's different this year. The 'old' Aldeburgh festival has wound down since the demise of The Poetry Trust. In its place is the new 'Poetry in Aldeburgh' run by a fresh group of people who want to keep an annual poetry festival going. Lots of people have asked me what the 'new' festival is like and as you can't do that in a tweet, it's time to do some good old fashioned typing in more than 140 characters. I have dotted this post with a few photos, but there are more on my <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mariamiskina/">Instagram account</a>. You might have to scroll down if you're reading this in a couple of weeks time!<br />
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Firstly, it's all by the sea this time. No coach journeys to Snape. To confuse matters, back in the day, the festival was always by the sea, but they went over to Snape - a great big auditorium. Now it's cosy again and set in the village. This means you can actually wonder about the pebble beach at your leisure and be all heightened and poetic if you wish. On the Sunday I think there was swimming and a poetry reading led by Fiona Moore, but I was probably eating my toast in the warm at that point.<br />
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I arrived on the Friday and that evening had a 'sea rose' at a viewing in the Peter Pears Gallery. Then went over to a reading by Blake Morrison and Anne Marie Fyfe. It was held in the Jubilee Hall, which is still a big venue by anyone's standards. Blake and Anne were a great start. I know Blake Morrison's work pretty well, and in particular the prose (Let's hear it for prose on the poetry blog!). I once interviewed him as a student in the last century and it's good to catch up every so often. Anne's work is very lyrical, dreamy and influenced by sea. Very appropriate!<br />
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Then I meandered around chatting and buying a couple of books from the lovely bloke who sells them second hand every year at the festival. I like how at poetry festival you often have 'annual' conversations with people. The next morning I went to a Poetry Society reading with Eric Berlin, Geraldine Clarkson and Ian Duhig. I am glad Ian read this poem from his latest book, 'The Blind Roadmaker':<br />
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I was new to Eric Berlin's work and was glad to be introduced. Geraldine Clarkson's work is familiar to me from her work in 'Primers' published by Nine Arches Press, but I've never heard her read so it was a treat. She read quite a few poems from her latest pamphlet intriguingly titled 'Dora Incites the Sea-Scribbler to Lament.'<br />
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I should mention the butterfly. There was a Peacock butterfly who'd used the Hall as a hibernating spot. He/she kept on fluttering around during various readings and often landing on the poets. It was a joy to finally hear Hannah Lowe read at 'The Rialto' launch. She was brill. Later on I also discovered Matthew Hollis who was reading alongside Tom Paulin. I remembered Tom Paulin from late night arty things and he certainly had presence. Oh and there was a 'secret' reading, Ok, not really a secret, just not on the programme, at the very posh Brudenell Hotel by Charlotte Gann. She was launching 'Noir' published by Happenstance. It is a beautiful, sinister collection. You may remember from previous episodes that I have a pamphlet out with HappenStance so it was great to catch up with Nell Nelson. There was a little wine too.<br />
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That evening there was peppermint tea in the Peter Pears Gallery. There was a sort of hub where the organisers were gathered and members of The Poetry School and The Poetry Society had stalls. Thank you Sophie Baker for the chats. This year I made a great companion in Alison Brackenbury. Thank you Alison for your company and the snacks! It is very difficult to eat properly at festivals. Food is appreciated.<br />
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Next morning was Sunday and normally I drive off home but I went to 'The Poetry Review' editors talk with Emily Berry, Kayo Chingonyi, Maurice Riordan and the butterfly. Maurice Riordan is the ex-editor. Emily Berry is now in charge. The butterfly was chief wing-flapper. They (not butterfly) talked about their choices for the magazine, what the editing role involved and answered questions from the floor. I can't really give you any hints or secrets about getting into the magazine. Mainly you have to write a poem that the editors like! Emily Berry read her chosen one about a goldfish, so off you go.<br />
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In conclusion... 'Poetry in Aldeburgh' is a much smaller festival. There is a lot more breathing space. I found myself popping back to the room a bit for tea during the day and spending more time exploring around the beach. I don't think it's fair to compare the festivals. I still saw many familiar faces around and I do think the concept of a poetry festival is very important for Aldeburgh and Suffolk. The big draw is the fact that you're by the sea. I do miss the crowds and the buzz of Snape Aldeburgh, but I like the sea air and relaxed atmosphere of the new one. I think the organisers have done a very good job and it looks like 2017 is going to happen. I really want to go, it's such a special location and a lovely place for poetry.<br />
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BTW I was going to write this post earlier. Of course I was, yes really, but that Trump fellow got in the way the week after and then, y'know, life. 2016 has been interesting... As for me, I've read a lot, but slowed down as a writer. If I don't make it back this side of 2017 then I wish you well. My new year's resolution is to get back on the poetic horse and gallop!<br />
<br />Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-66097444017673542016-09-20T02:50:00.002-07:002016-09-20T02:59:14.061-07:00September 2016: A New Pamphlet, 'Instructions for Making Me.' <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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After a few months of silence, it's become absolutely necessary to update this blog as I have something to say. I am very happy to announce that I have a new pamphlet out with HappenStance and it's called 'Instructions for Making Me.' I wasn't going to say anything official until I had the actual publication in my hands. Nell Nelson via Jane Commane at the Poetry Book Fair sped a few copies over in time for my first reading last night. Luckily the winged gods of Hermes did actually manage to deliver the rest of the pamphlets in time, which I found under a bush in my front garden. A bit like a stork leaving a baby or something. So, yes, it's definitely a 'thing' now and I read from the pamphlet last night at Shindig in Leicester and sold a few. I read with Kathy Pimlott, Richard Skinner and Marion Tracy who were great.<br />
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If you're interested (hint hint) in finding out more, well, <a href="http://www.happenstancepress.org/index.php/shop/product/47766-instructions-for-making-me-maria-taylor">look here</a>! I'm really grateful to Nell Nelson for editing and producing such a handsome pamphlet, along with the artistic talents of Gillian Rose who designed the cover image. It's very ribby.<br />
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It's also very difficult to talk about your own work without sounding like, well you know...so I've taken a photo of Nell's comments on the pamphlet, along with mentions of new pamphlets by Paul Stephenson and Helen Tookey. They've also have new pamphlets out at the same time. I have a Smartphone now; I'm very contemporary these days and take random snaps of things all the time. Oh did I say I was on Instagram now, as mariamiskina? Well, I have now. Back to the other stuff:<br />
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So there you go. I am an exclamation mark. I am a glass of Rioja. I am Spring. This is ironic as a shop assistant t'other week said my choice of top was the 'perfect colour for transitioning into autumn.' You get different seasons catered for in this pamphlet. Why not have a look, please and thank you.<br />
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I'd also like to add I have two poems in the current edition of 'The North.' Look <a href="http://www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/shop/928/north-56">here</a> if you don't believe me and here's a <a href="https://twitter.com/MariaTaylor_/status/772495379489288192">tweet</a> link for a poem. I am pleased to be in there as this issue mentions John Foggin's great success in the pamphlet comp. He is a top poet, gent and I'm very happy for him. Thank you. Till we meet again.Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-23785518580816124532016-06-06T04:11:00.001-07:002016-06-29T01:58:56.273-07:00End of May '16: Jo Dixon and Kathy Pimlott <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you were taking notes – of course you were – you’ll
remember that in May’s blog post I said I’d discuss a Nottingham event. The slick team behind <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Commonplace</i> travel all
around the East Midlands you know. Last Tuesday, I went to <a href="http://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/">Five Leaves Bookshop</a>
to attend the Nottingham launches of two pamphlets; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Goose Fair Night</i> (Emma Press) by Kathy Pimlott and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Woman in the Queue</i> (Melos Press) by Jo
Dixon. It definitely had a sense of ‘place’ about it. Kathy comes from
Nottingham originally, so lots of her family were there. Kathy now lives in
Seven Dials, which is slap bang in the middle of central London. Can you imagine
what it would be like? It reminds me of a Kinks’ song, ‘every night I look at
the world from my window.’ Jo is a native of Nottingham now, but some of her
family come from Bethnal Green, so there was an exchange there between the two
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Both readers complemented each other very well;
there was a genuine sense of harmony between them. Like a certain ball game, it
was an evening of two halves, with both Kathy and Jo delivering two short
readings in each part. I’d never heard Kathy read and I’d only heard Jo read
out one poem before. That poem was ‘NICU’ and one of my favourites by Jo, a very
honest poem about the experience of having a newborn in a Neo-Natal ward. It’s
also featured in the pamphlet and she performed a moving reading of it on the
night. One of the things the staff do for parents is to take photos of the
babies, as the poem says, ‘just in case.’ The emotion is reined in, but it’s
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Exactly like a parent who
has to be practical in this situation and deal with the day to day aspects of having a new baby: even
though the threat of something dark is there, ‘A Polaroid, 2” by 3 ½”... tuck
him under your pillow.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jo’s reading
also took us away from England and some of the poems were about South Africa. These
were rich with images and full of the language of that region. One of the poems
featured phrases from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Xhosa</i> (hope I
got that right). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Commonplace</i> is yet to travel that far physically, but has now done so
in a poetic sense.
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Until a few months ago, I hadn’t heard of <a href="http://melospress.blogspot.co.uk/">Melos Press</a>, but I think we’ll be hearing a lot more. That’s a tip off if you’re
planning on submitting a manuscript for a pamphlet by the way. They are
producing beautiful pamphlets and the poetry is of a high standard, as evinced
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Place and memory also featured heavily in Kathy’s
poems. For those of you who don’t know Goose Fair is Nottingham’s big annual
event and it’s been going on for a very long time - a mere seven hundred years
or so. Even D.H. Lawrence would pop back home for it when he was in London. It
made perfect sense to include Kathy’s poem, ‘You Bring Out the Nottingham in Me' on Commonplace. I love this poem; I love the energy, the imagery and its
atmosphere. I think I first read it in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
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Kathy’s pamphlet is published by <a href="http://theemmapress.com/">The Emma Press</a> who you’ll remember from all those varied and imaginative themed anthologies. The
Emma Press equally publish single-author collections too. They’re definitely
becoming established now and feature lots of exciting titles, with some
beautiful designs and illustrations included in their work. Their poetry has a kind of
gutsiness I really admire. Sometimes in poetry we look to our ‘non-poetic’
friends and relatives as a barometer of what’s good and I can reliably say my ‘non-poetic’
cousin thought their anthology of dance poetry was amazing. In other words, The
Emma Press are very good indeed. Go seek. </div>
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I asked Jo if it was ok to feature ‘Dead Ringer’
here and she kindly agreed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ostensibly,
I chose this poem as it’s linked to place. Something similar to events in the poem occurred on
Trent Bridge, but having typed out the poem I can see (and hear) there’s a heck
of a lot going on that’s worth commenting on aside from place. Firstly, the poem deals with
alcoholism, in particular its physical impact on the body. We could discuss
the emotional one too, but I think the poem leaves that open to interpretation.
That's a hallmark of Jo's poetry, she keeps the emotion watertight and lets the details do the talking. To me, this poem is very honest about the effects of alcoholism on the body. It achieves that through sound as well as description, ‘spine into the bricks /
disc by disc by disc.’ Then there’s the other physical indicators of ‘vascular
spiders’ and ‘her eyes will be bilirubin yellow.’ Ok, I didn’t know what ‘bilirubin’
meant at first, but I can confirm it’s that sickly, thick shade of yellow you
sometimes see around people’s eyes. So, how does the man in the poem know ‘her
eyes’ will be ‘yellow’? This is where you get the chills, because he can see it
in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">own</i> wife, as revealed in the
last verse.
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Waiting at the lights he spots</div>
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a woman leaning against </div>
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the wall of the Hope and Anchor.</div>
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She grabs at the air. Misses.</div>
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Her shoulder smacks the concrete slabs.</div>
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Three undone buttons lay bare</div>
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her collarbone and he pictures</div>
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The flatbed in front pulls away.</div>
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On to to Kathy’s poems, one of which is about
Loughborough, where the vast editorial team behind Commonplace live and thrive.
How could<i> </i>I, sorry <i>we</i>, not feature a poem about Loughborough? The poem’s about
the Carillon Tower in Queen’s Park, not just any old tower, oh no. The Carillon
is a very nifty bell tower – someone plays a keyboard and the keys are linked
to bells at the top. You can walk a scary staircase right up there and look at
them, all hugely shadowy and sublime. The tower was built in memory of people
who died from the town in the First World War and composers such as Edward Elgar
wrote music for it. I suppose we take the bells for granted here, you often
hear them and the sound’s unusual in itself when it’s carried on the air. It’s
ethereal and sometimes hauntingly out of tune. Kathy’s poem brought home the
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What struck me about the poem is how the carillon bells are made in such fiery,
atonal circumstances and then made and shaped to play harmonically. Loughborough has a
history of bell making. I once went to the Bell Foundry here and I have to say
it was like an inferno. That image of fire rather poignantly suits the war
theme. I first saw a draft of this poem when it was in neat tercets, but in a
workshop Matthew Caley told Kathy to ‘explode’ it, so the poem’s shape is very
different now and it suits the theme and overall sound. So, without any further
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How to Make a Carillon</div>
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First, lose two boys to a terrible war,</div>
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a loss heavier than Great Paul, fierce</div>
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as a maiden casting in spaces blasted,</div>
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judge then make a core and cope,</div>
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the hum, prime, quint, nomimal,</div>
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Someone, not you, must build a tower in a park,
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across a town, a plain town such as a temperance
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A carillonist then climbs</div>
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lifting clappers to sound the forty seven bells</div>
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whose partial tones</div>
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Loughborough is on the way to Nottingham and now
we travel a few miles north, next to the window seat with some beige tea, to
the Goose Fair. Nottingham’s a spirited city; it can get pretty boisterous of
an evening. What I like about this poem is the speaker’s softer side, despite
the city's apparent hardness ‘tunnels undermine me secretly.’ This is true as the city
is full of tunnels, but I love the fact the city and speaker are the same
person or thing. I’ll leave you with Kathy’s poem and in the meantime, take
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You Bring Out the Nottingham in Me</div>
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You bring out the Hyson Green and Forest Fields</div>
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bite signalled by a chiffon scarf.</div>
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My scent is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dangerous
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hot sugar, Mouse Town must. In electric dark</div>
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for the glory and floor them tenderly to rock ‘n’
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chain and lever growl and lovely screams.</div>
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I am all of these: china saucers of acetic</div>
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mushy peas, pomegranate pips eased</div>
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out with pins, bows and arrows, bouncing</div>
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fairy dolls and cocks on sticks.</div>
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Lace cuffs and stockings catch and run as Ludd</div>
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spills out of me. Only with you I’m dun sandstone,</div>
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tunnels undermine me secretly.</div>
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You bring it out of me, me duck, you do, that
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Lawrence fuck. With you I’m Clough-strut right, so
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Thank you very much to both Jo and Kathy for allowing me to include their poems. I should probably get down to work on some of my own, I think Kathy and Jo have inspired me to crack on. <i>Commonplace</i> will be back soon, unless the world's ended due to Brexit or media saturation. </div>
Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-14844624040692248662016-06-06T03:44:00.001-07:002016-06-06T03:44:08.537-07:00In the Spotlight<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://poetryspotlight.com/">Poetry Spotlight </a></td></tr>
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Very quick post to say a big thank to Poetry Spotlight for including an interview with me on their website. I'd really recommend this site as it's packed with interviews from a growing list of poets.<br />
Here's something directly from the website about its ethos:<br />
<br />
<em>What hopefully sets Poetry Spotlight apart a little from other
poetry sites is that all poems featured are accompanied by a short
interview with the author. A poem doesn’t appear out of thin air and
it’s nice sometimes to learn a bit more about the person who penned it.
Turns out they are often as interesting as the writing they produce.
Beyond that, there is no other agenda than the hope these pages reach
some kind of audience.</em><br />
<br />
I could tell you what my interview's about, but you can read it for yourself <a href="http://poetryspotlight.com/maria-taylor/">here</a>. And do have a look at the vast array of poets, interviews and poems included. It's a fantastic idea.Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-19649907250465267012016-05-24T12:37:00.000-07:002016-05-24T13:14:57.545-07:00May 2016: It's Spring... Publications, Events and Two Poems from Alison Brackenbury<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Hi, here’s May so far. As
I said in earlier posts, I’ve had a bit of a poetry hiatus recently. May has
definitely been a time to get back on the poetic horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been writing and editing, but I’ve also
had a couple of acceptances and...and... here’s the big news. In September I’ll
have a pamphlet out with HappenStance Press, hurrah! At the moment it hasn’t
got a title, I’m calling it ‘pamphlet’ for now, but hopefully a better title will
appear. So, I’ve been doing that thing that a lot of poets do, take photos
of and share on-line:</div>
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And yes, I could write
an entire blog post about ordering and editing, and maybe I will when I find
some spare hours hiding under a mattress or something. I’ll write more over
future posts, but for now I’ll say this: I’m utterly delighted to have a publication
with a press I deeply admire. Nell is a wonderful editor. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of my favourite poetry has been published
by HappenStance Press. I first came across <a href="http://miskinataylor.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/what-i-read-on-my-holidays.html">Mark Halliday through HappenStance </a>and over the years I’ve enjoyed books and pamphlets by Fiona Moore, Chrissie
Williams, Matthew Stewart, Rosie Miles, D A Prince, Tom Duddy and others. Hopefully it'll be out in September.</div>
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This has also been the
month of attending poetry readings. Earlier on in May, I went to Jazz and
Poetry in Nottingham to hear readings from three Nine Arches Press poets: David
Clarke, Jo Bell and Daniel Sluman. These evenings are organised by David Belbin
and John Lucas turns up with his Jazz band Four in a Bar and much heel
kicking takes place. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The venue for the
event has changed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It used to be in the
Guitar Bar across the road, but it’s now in the Polish Eagle Club. It’s a great
new place with lots of space, panelled walls and a big dance floor. It reminds
of the kind of places I used to attend at weddings and christenings as a girl. The
atmosphere was very relaxed and all three poets delivered fantastic readings.
It was Jane Commane’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>birthday, she runs
the good ship Nine Arches. Jo presented her with a super choclately birthday cake and
a good time was had by all. </div>
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In Leicester we had the
May Shindig. I think it’s only fair to say that May has been Leicester’s month.
They only just went and won the football didn’t they? Ok, I was born in Notts
and raised within the bells of QPR, but I’m very happy for my closest city up the
road. We even went to the Victory Parade. Now, on the subject of the Victory
Parade, Shindig was scheduled for the same date. It soon became clear this wasn’t
going to be practical. 250,000 people turned up in Leicester that day, but they
weren’t going to Shindig. We had to cancel and rearrange the date for the 23<sup>rd</sup>.
That was last night. We had readings from two excellent Leicester based poets,
Shruti Chauhan and Lydia Towsey and we had the superb Alison Brackenbury all
the way from Gloucestershire. It was an absolute treat having Alison join us,
we were very lucky. She was reading from her new collection ‘Skies’ published by
Carcanet. It’s had great reviews <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in <i>The
Guardian</i> and <i>The Independen</i>t and been featured on Radio 4. Below are a couple
of short but perfectly and richly formed poems from the collection, which
Alison has very kindly allowed me to include here. Her lyricism is second to
none or 'heavenly' as I said last night when I introduced her.<br />
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So May belongs to
Leicester perhaps, but the author of Commonplace resides in a hinterland town
between Leicester and Nottingham. We’re not forgetting Nottingham, oh no. I
went to another <i>More Raw Material</i>, Alan Sillitoe event in Nottingham and heard
some great readings from some of the contributors. There were three memorable
performances from poets I know, but had never heard or seen in the flesh:
Bethany Pope, Rosie Garland and Ruth Fainlight, Alan Sillitoe’s widow. Next
week, all being well, I’m attending a reading at Five Leaves Bookshop with Jo
Dixon and Kathy Pimlott. I’m currently enjoying their pamphlets.</div>
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Finally, I even had
some poems published of my own. After some months off this has been quite lovely. This year I’ve
sent off four submissions, one was a polite ‘decline,’ two have been
acceptances and one is still at the artwork stage, although a poem’s been
shortlisted. Who knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have <a href="https://andotherpoems.com/2016/05/24/two-poems-by-maria-taylor/">two poems up on And Other Poems </a>and I’m grateful to Josephine Corcoran and Rishi Dastidar
for selecting them. I’ve had two poems accepted by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The North </i>too. It really has felt like a while since this has happened. </div>
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To finish off, as promised, here are
two poems by Alison Brackenbury. Please have a look at the book at the<a href="http://carcanetblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/skies-by-alison-brackenbury.html"> Carcanet website </a>for more details.Both are a perfect example of how a short poem can convey so much.<br />
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8am</div>
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I am cycling, in a
sensible bright coat.</div>
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A girl comes pedalling,
quickly by, loose shawls</div>
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skidding from
shoulders, hitched skirt, silver pumps.</div>
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I was that girl. O may
she ride her falls. </div>
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‘Will The Comet Survive
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Encounter With the Sun?’</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(astronomer, writing of Comet Ison)</i></div>
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This, I suppose, is
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we fly into the sun</div>
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and some are gone and
some survive</div>
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like shadows, limping
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And some, far closer
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fill all our eyes at
dawn.<br />
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Hi again, I'm challenging my one post a month target this April. I'm often a diarist when it comes to blogging, but I thought this was a good time to write more generally about things. I might write another 'diary' post this month too.<br />
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The young man featured above is 'The Hanged Man.' You may remember him from T. S. Eliot's <i>The Waste Land</i>, where he's mentioned but doesn't actually turn up to the Tarot party. He's not as unhappy as you might think. Yes, he's upside down hanging from his left ankle, but here he's actually giving up control, taking time out. He's happy to watch the world go by, albeit from a strange angle.<br />
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What has this to do with a poetry blog, apart from the tenuous reference to Eliot? In my experience poets can be very impatient. I am no exception. I had about 4-5 months off sending out recently. This has been an interesting time. I've not heard anything as yet and am about to start work in earnest on a manuscript very soon. A return to the world of acceptance/rejection and being active is imminent. No news is possibly good news at this stage. In the last few days of 'hanging out' and mulling over things, it's worth reflecting on this. Many poets, and I do this as well, judge what they do on 'acceptance.' This time last year I was very busy sending off and getting published. This went on till about October and I needed a breather. By Christmas, I'd had a couple of' 'no thank yous' and then the holidays came and went. January is usually a non-starter and February's only marginally better etc and then I realised I was <i>out of the game</i>! I'd not sent out for ages - well relatively, it was only 4 months, but things move fast. I was missing all sorts of deadlines. I'd spent more time off-line and felt a bit overwhelmed when I realised how much was going on. So, I made myself send out again and am waiting for responses! I've had 6 months off now, even though there's been the odd publication from that earlier period of busily sending out.<br />
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Why is sending out so important? Well, apart from the glow of acceptance, even rejection is important. It sends signals out to both poet and editor that you're out there doing your thing. Some rejections are 'nice' ones, even though they don't feel like it. Some poets choose only to send to people they know, some aerially bombard everywhere. When I first started sending out over 6 years ago I kept a notebook and had an X for reject and tick for acceptance. There were a lot of Xs. The majority in fact were Xs. But I kept going. I look back at that time and realise how important it was, like cutting teeth. You don't need a complicated system of recording your submissions, unless you have lots of them. A simple notebook will do. There will always be Xs of course. I also think it's natural to go through quieter periods as it's hard to maintain that busy momentum. <br />
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Here are two things David Morley taught me that seem relevant here:<br />
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1. Don't write for magazines - i.e. write what you <i>need</i> to write, not what you <i>think</i> you should.<br />
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Added to this is the <i>not-beating-yourself-up-over-not-writing-much</i>: <br />
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2. 'The Silence Reservoir'. I'm quoting here from David: 'You will find you fluency naturally slowing in order to allow the reservoir of language and ideas within your unconscious mind to replenish. Leave the field. Stop writing. Finish for the day and go for a walk...Silence is itself a type of eloquence...'*<br />
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David should know. David was my tutor at Warwick many years ago and I remember one seminar in 1998 where he came in distraught at the start. He'd just heard that Ted Hughes had died. Hughes was a massive influence on David and he referred to him that day as 'a poetic father.' He felt an undeniable loss, which makes <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/ted-hughes-poetry-award-ecologist-david-morley-wins-5000-prize-for-the-invisible-gift-selected-poems-a6962641.html">this news </a>not only gratifying, but also very moving as it was won in Ted's name.<br />
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<i>* </i>From <i>The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing</i>, David Morley, Cambridge University Press, 2007.Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-74445942377501407692016-03-28T09:25:00.001-07:002016-03-28T09:50:28.863-07:00March 2016: Sometimes Poetry Makes a Few Things Happen<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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The title of this blog post owes a debt to Auden’s well
known line, ‘poetry makes nothing happen’ because ironically, a few things have
happened recently due to poetry. At the end of February I read at and attended
a refugee benefit hosted by Lydia Towsey that featured some great poets. The
event <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>also supported the <i>Over Land Over
Sea</i> anthology, a book which I’ve mentioned in an earlier post. The book’s
raised thousands of pounds for groups like <b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Médecins Sans Frontières and
Leicester City of Sanctuary. This is through sales of a poetry anthology.
Sometimes poetry <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">does</i> make things
happen.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">March has been fairly busy and now sees me with a new batch of reading
material; some of which has been gratefully received as gifts, winnings and
even purchased. This included a couple of pamphlets I won from the Poetry Business in a most random comp on email. I also have/had a cold and a chest infection (nothing changes there)
so that’s slowed me down a bit, but I’ve also been organising the next batch of
reviews for <a href="http://ninearchespress.com/magazine.html"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Under the Radar</i></a>. I am
very pleased to say that’s been sorted. For both the current issue and the
next, the vast majority of reviewers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are
female, so I’d like to think we’re redressing the balance in our own way. As
ever I’ve tried really hard to ensure that a fair spread of books and pamphlets
are getting reviewed, but we have more books coming in than reviewers and pages
to print on. It’s good at least that there’s a lot of enthusiasm on all sides.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">March is always about States of Independence. This was held on a
couple of Saturdays ago at De Montfort University and there was the usual merry
mix of stalls, publishers and free events and readings. The small presses were
well and truly celebrated, but sometimes I think it’s the small presses that
hold things up for the bigger ones. This is where you find the kind of people
who are interested and open minded about books and publishing and where you can
make discoveries. I read at two events, the <i>Over Land Over Sea</i> one and the Alan Sillitoe Anthology<i>, More Raw Material, </i>reading with Martin Figura. Can I say to begin with
that Martin Figura is bloody amazing. I’ve written about his show <a href="http://miskinataylor.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/whistle-martin-figura.html">Whistle</a>
before. He was reading from his latest collection <i>Dr. Zeeman’s Catastrophe
Machine</i> which, and I am quoting here from the <a href="http://www.cinnamonpress.com/index.php/products-listing/product/202-dr-zeeman-s-catastrophe-machine-martin-figura">Cinnamon Press website</a>, ‘</span></b>blurs
the edges of personal and collective memory to explore family, relationships
and belonging against a social, historical and political backdrop.’ That says it
better than I could. I have a cold y'know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Though I will add to that and say there was a hanging-on-to-every-word
thing going on for me when Martin read. We’ve ordered a copy. The event was hosted by the anthology’s
tireless editors Neil Fullwood and David Sillitoe, who read from some of Alan
Silitoe’s work as well. I went to Deborah Tyler-Bennett’s and Andy Green’s
readings first thing too. Mr. Commonplace (aka Jonathan Taylor) got shortlisted
for the East Midlands Book of the Year Award panel for <i>Melissa</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I spent a lot of time at the panels and readings in fact,
and probably not enough time downstairs perusing the books, although I made a
few purchases from Charles Boyle at CB Editions. They’re becoming one of my
favourite presses. Bob Richardson was also there selling his fantastically,
super-reasonably priced Poem Flyers at 20p each! He’s made a couple of flyers
out poems by me. Other presses and magazines like Nine Arches Press, Five
Leaves, Flarestack, Shearsman, Smith Doorstop, Soundswrite, Interpreter’s
House, Shoestring, Leafe Press, Longbarrow<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">March also featured a couple of launches. Firstly there was
Sarah Leavesley’s prize winning pamphlet <i>Lampshades and Glass Rivers</i> for the
Bill Overton Memorial Award at Loughborough Uni. Added bonus of being 5 mins
walk away for me, a rare thing. Also Cliff Yates’ launched <i>Jam</i> at Cafe Wired
in Nottingham and one of the hosts Becky Cullen sang a bit which is always a
highlight. In January she got everyone to sing David Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance,’
although I probably had a cold at the time and didn’t sing much. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">As for my writing...well I’ve come out of hibernation a bit
and actually sent off a few poems, first batch since October. Now the waiting
game begins. Also - and I’ll say more next month - I am putting together a new
manuscript for a pamphlet which is scheduled for later on in the year. I haven’t
done this seriously since 2011/’12. It’s VERY HARD. Maybe it’s even harder
than putting together a full-length manuscript because you have to be very picky.
There was me thinking it would arrange itself, NO CHANCE. I’ll probably be
writing a blog post about that sooner or later, you lucky people. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Before I go off in search of antibiotics, I'd like to mention Kim Moore's blog as she wrote<a href="https://kimmoorepoet.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/poetry-makes-nothing-happen/"> an entry</a> which really resonated with me, the title of which was the (previosuly mentioned) Auden line: 'Poetry makes nothing happen.' There's a really intriguing poem by Kim at the end which spells out all the things that poetry does or allows you to do, by saying, ironically, that it doesn't. I'll leave you to ponder. See you soon. </span></div>
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Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-41494309340432457902016-02-25T04:03:00.000-08:002016-02-25T08:31:55.376-08:00Quite Contrary: Martin Stannard and Kim Addonizio - February 2016<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I’m trying to keep up with my personal target of at least
one post per month, although February’s been quiet. I’ve mainly been getting on
with editing and so on, but this would not make for a very interesting post so
I’m going to tell you about a reading I went to earlier on in the month. Martin Stannard came over all the way from China to read in Nottingham.
Martin’s work is relatively new to me; I only came across one of his books last
August. I had only come across the reviews. If you’re of a nervous poetic disposition
and/or a fan of Simon Armitage, well especially if you’re a fan of Simon
Armitage, watch out. It’ll sting. Martin described himself as ‘contrary’ on the
night and, well, <a href="http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/Stride%20mag%202015/feb2015/stannard.armitage.htm">read this </a>for yourself after this post. Anyway, I’m writing
about the poetry now. Martin has done a lot for poetry. He edited the magazine <a href="http://www.martinstannard.com/jsc/jsccanoes.html"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Joe Soap’s Canoe</i> </a>from 1978 to 1993 and
introduced many home-grown poets as well as lesser known American ones. You’ll
find a great deal of work from the second generation of New York Poets and one
edition was dedicated to the work of Paul Violi. He even published Simon
Armitage too. I’d come across the excellent ‘The Ingredient’ in Anthony Wilson’s <a href="http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/lifesaving-poems-1102"><i>Lifesaving Poems</i></a> and by a random act of happenstance received a copy of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Gracing Of Days</i> which was published
by Slow Dancer Press in 1989 and also featured that poem. All the pages are falling out of my copy, but
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On the night Martin read from his new collection <a href="http://leafepress.com/catalog/stannard/stannard.html"><i>Poems for the Young at Heart</i></a> which is published by Leafe Press and has a very nice
endorsement on the back by Ian McMillan. Another poet once published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Joe Soap’s Canoe</i>. Martin’s reading was
funny. Honestly, you don’t often laugh your way through readings very often,
and I for one enjoyed that. Intermingled with this were moments of Romance and
acerbic commentary. All these elements sit together casually in the poetry. You
can tell it’s very heavily influenced by the New York School and Frank O’Hara
in particular. It’s conversational, follows its own inner logic and goes ‘on
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I’m glad I went despite having a cold (I always have a cold)
and drove home through the night with C Duncan’s latest album for company. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <a href="http://www.davidbelbin.com/2016/02/martin-stannard-a-rare-visit/">David Belbin</a> has also written something about the evening, although his post includes some footage and a trip to A&E.</span><br />
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Someone else who’s quite contrary, but perhaps in a more
openly emotive and autobiographical way, is the American poet Kim Addonizio. I’d
been reading <a href="http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/wild-nights-299"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wild Nights</i></a> published by
Bloodaxe last year on and off for a while now. I think I once wrote that when
you enjoy a poem you don’t read it just once and I’ve lost track of how many
times I’ve read ones like ‘Glass,’ ‘November 11’ and ‘Florida.’ Even though I’ve
read the book I’m still returning to the poems. This collection is one of new
and selected poems and goes back about twenty years or so. Kim’s poems are very
upfront about relationships, love and sex. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There<i>'</i>s a lot of drinking and harmonica
playing too. We often use the phrase 'someone who’s lived it’ but I’d be
inclined to say this is poetry by someone who isn’t afraid to write candidly about living. The poems
themselves have a conversational, almost stream of consciousness style. There’s
that word again, conversational. We seem to use it a lot when we talk about American
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Kim’s book has spent a lot of time by the bed and in my kitchen;
I just pick it up and dive in. I was trying to find an excerpt to share, but
that felt very difficult as I don’t feel I can neatly quote from any poem
without showing it in the context of the whole thing. I’ve found <a href="https://audioboom.com/boos/2195547-glass-by-kim-addonizio">a recording</a>
of someone called, somewhat implausibly, Porridgebrain, reading out ‘Glass’
with a very English accent, but it's still very conversational, and ah, that last
line, ‘I’m so in love with you I can’t stand up.’ </div>
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Thank you, Porridgebrain. Until
March.</div>
Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-88269486616423450322016-01-21T04:02:00.000-08:002016-02-25T07:41:43.682-08:00January 2016 - The Drawing Board and the Monkey <img alt="Image result for chinese new year 2016 animal" class="rg_i" data-sz="f" name="QwtHRb3vQdz5fM:" 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Is it to late to say happy new year? Well, happy new year anyway.It's almost Chinese New Year, which Google tells me is the Year of the Monkey (featured above). I had a spare morning, so I've been at my desk trying to write. Trying being the key word, because I'm trying to take stock of which poems are 'done' (very few), which poems could be revived and which ones will stay in the folder (going very yellow). A monkey at a typewriter might make more sense of the pile! Firstly, some good news. I have two poems in the Manchester Review, which you can read <a href="http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=5302&page=2">here</a>. Secondly, Matthew Stewart has been saying some incredibly nice things about what I do on his <a href="http://roguestrands.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/maria-taylor-in-manchester-review.html">blog</a>.<br />
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Back to today. I don't know about you, but I seem to have an avalanche of drafts to sort through. It makes sense that January should be a time to sort things out, but I'm not sure where to start. The other week I read a <a href="http://www.happenstancepress.org/index.php/blog/entry/on-writing-too-much">blogpost</a> by Helena Nelson on editing and the writing process. Here's a snippet:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Careful writing clarifies. Helps you see things. It’s a beautiful thing.
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<span style="color: blue;">In Stephen King’s book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Writing-Stephen-King/dp/1444723251/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452418620&sr=8-1&keywords=stephen+king+on+writing">On Writing</a>,
he says ‘Do not come lightly to the blank page’. Another way, I think,
of remarking on the holiness of the act. And though I agree that the
writer should not come lightly to the task, writing imparts lightness to
the writer and, when the clarification process works, light to the
reader.</span><br />
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This is chiming with something I'm experiencing at the moment. When I was starting out I used to write every single day. Now I've slowed down. I still enjoy noting down fresh ideas, but when I have a rough draft in front of me I know it's going to be a while before I feel I can share it with anyone. When the process is going well, however, it's still a lot of fun and the sense of 'lightness' is there. In the autumn I did something a bit odd, I sent out poems which were pretty much early drafts and they all came back pretty sharpish. It's taught me that the whole process, for me at any rate, is about slowing down. There's one poem I'm working on which I started almost two years ago and it's not even near finished. Also, in the last year or so I've found that life, news, etc. have pulled me away a bit, but taking time out allows for ideas to refresh themselves. I'm starting to wonder how some of these poems can fit together in a book. At Aldeburgh Kei Miller said he had an idea then set to work on a book. In my experience ideas come together in retrospect. I'm not sure if there's a right way round or not...but you have to do what you do to do anything. I think that makes sense.<br />
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Now I'm off to hunt for a particular half-finished poem on a scrappy piece of A4. If the monkey hasn't got it, it's around somewhere...Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-76283891792642181982015-12-14T04:41:00.001-08:002016-01-21T12:27:04.956-08:00November & December 2015: Reading, Readings and the Common ColdI have a cold today and am at home feeling lousy. I probably shouldn't be blogging, but I felt it had been a long while since the last post. There is some cheering news for the blog though, in the form of Matthew Stewart naming Commonplace as one of his selections for best poetry blog. There are a great many listed on site and you can read the post <a href="http://roguestrands.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/the-best-uk-poetry-blogs-of-2015.html">here</a> for interesting things to discover. He makes a good point about Commonplace being something of a journal. That has been quite a regular feature and perhaps there will be more themed entries at a later date, but today it's diary time. I feel like I need to catch up today. <br />
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Recently I've done quite a few readings. Starting in October with at 'Writers in the Bath' organised by Cora Greenhill. No fear, it's a venue called 'The Bath,' not an actual one. That reading was with Roy Marshall and Jo Bell. Then the was the Vanguard night of Poetry in Camberwell, London in November, organised by Richard Skinner. I read with Cathy Galvin, Sophie Herxheimer, Keith Hutson, Martin Malone and Rob Harper. As with the other London reading in September, I had to dash off for the train, which I wasn't happy about. I knew the other readers would be special and it was a great night. Both readings were indicative of the kind of enthused, supportive and warm audiences you have at poetry readings. At the Vanguard reading there was a lady in the audience called Evalyn Lee who was drawing some amazing pictures of all the readers. I am sharing one of me below:<br />
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More recently I did a short reading as part of the launch of <i>More Raw Material</i>, an anthology of writing inspired by Nottingham writer Alan Sillitoe. The book is edited by Neil Fulwood and David Sillitoe.<br />
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I was really struck by Neil and David's enthusiasm on the night. Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham was packed. It's a really enjoyable read and the book aims to raise funds for the Alan Sillitoe Memorial Fund. Some more details <a href="http://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/more-raw-material-work-inspired-by-alan-sillitoe/">here</a>. In preparation for the night, I re-read my copy of Sillitoe's short stories in <i>The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner</i>. The Nottingham literary scene is on a bit of a roll at the moment having been chosen for UNESCO's City of Literature. Well done.<br />
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Talking of the East Midlands, another very important anthology from the area is currently out: <i>Over Land, Over Sea: Poems for those Seeking Refuge</i>, edited by Kathy Bell, Emma Lee and Siobhan Logan.<br />
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Proceeds from sales of the book will be shared between three charities:
Médecins Sans Frontières, Leicester City of Sanctuary and Nottingham
Refugee Forum. The book is obviously a response to the terrible events of the last few months. So far they've sold hundreds of copies. There are 102 poems and contributions form the following poets: Alan Baker, Kathleen Bell, A.C. Clarke, Kerry Featherstone, Chrissie
Gittins, Mark Goodwin, Tania Hershman, Siobhan Logan, Emma Lee, Carol
Leeming, Joanne Limburg, Aoife Mannix, Roy Marshall, Hubert Moore,
Thomas Orszag-Lund, Simon Perril, Sheenagh Pugh, Mahendra Solanki, Maria
Taylor, Rory Waterman, Gregory Woods, and Siobhan Logan. More information and copies of the book are available<a href="http://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/over-land-over-sea/"> here</a>. The editors have worked incrediby hard to turn the book around in little over two months from subs to the final print.<br />
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Finally - and this is where my cold could be a problem - Mr. Commonplace aka Jonathan Taylor has a fabulous new novel out with Salt called 'Melissa.' There's already been a Leicester launch and there's one at Five Leaves Bookshop on Wednesday night from 7pm. I'm meant to be reading with Jonathan, but I'm hoping the cold will be gone by then. Here's some more info on the book <a href="http://www.saltpublishing.com/products/melissa-9781784630355?variant=3892818433">here</a>. I obviously know it quite well having lived in the same house where it was written and having seen various drafts. It's quite odd hearing Jonathan read it for public audiences when I read drafts of it at the artwork stage, but it's all good. I sense a veering into prose for this poetry blog, so I should add he also has a poem in the current <i>Rialto </i>too. <br />
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I've also been editing reviews for <i>Under the Radar </i>this month. It's actually a challenge and a reward. More on that when the next issue comes out. Also, a few poetry books to recommend. I hope to write some longer pieces soon, but books currently by the bed (a great honour) among others include: <i>Night Letter</i> (pamphlet) by Fiona Moore and <i>The Whole & Rain-domed Universe</i> by Colette Bryce. It's also good to see Daniel Sluman's second collection <i>The Terrible</i> out, which I was also lucky to see in its earlier drafts.<br />
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Finally a few thoughts on the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. Since writing my last entry things are not looking good for The Poetry Trust, who run the festival and the event may only take place on a reduced and much smaller scale next year.In fact, the Trust's offices are no more and up for rent. I'm glad I went to Aldeburgh for two years running before this news. I'm really sorry about it. I'm glad though that my write-up has been used among other blog posts to support and promote the festival. Judging by the stats there's been a lot of interest. It would be such an awful waste if the festival lost all it's funding. It was a genuinely special thing to attend. There is a very touching guest post by Naomi Jaffa on Anthony Wilson's blog which you can read <a href="http://anthonywilsonpoetry.com/2015/12/13/guest-blog-post-endings-and-legacies-by-naomi-jaffa/">here</a>.<br />
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Now back to bed and some paracetamol...Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-84794782203825435672015-11-23T06:39:00.001-08:002016-06-29T02:00:08.316-07:00The 2015 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Attending the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival is habit forming. Last
year I went to Aldeburgh for the first time and went again this year. By
now there are many blog posts out there and I’m aware I’m adding to the list,
but it takes me a while to process things. For example, last year I was
thinking about some of the events and readings ages after they’d happened. This
year I’m already looking back to some astounding readings by Helen Mort, Kei
Miller and Kim Addonizio, but also poets I wasn’t so familiar with like Valerie
Rouzeau, Dorothea Smart, Michael McCarthy, Choman Hardi, Peter Sirr and Christine Webb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps that’s one of the draws of this
particular festival, is that you go to discover new things rather to confirm
what you know. Both years I’ve felt as if gained a great deal by going. It’s
not near where I live, so there must be a special reason for travelling all
that distance to get there. And yes, it wasn’t easy travelling through Friday rush hour
and missing the first few events. But as soon I arrived I went straight to
Snape on the bus and got on with it all. </div>
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Unlike last year, I hadn’t brought any
advance tickets, which was useful, as I would’ve missed things, but I found I could get my tickets quickly enough anyway. I went to Kim
Addonizio’s close reading of a Don Patterson poem and conversation between John
Burnside and Helen Macdonald on language and nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was all a bit of a rush and I had to eat
my sandwiches like a schoolkid during Kim’s talk, but no one seemed to mind.
I saw lots of people I knew and settled in quickly. The main reading was a real highlight; I went to the main reading with Helen
Mort, Kei Miller and Jeremy Reed. I should say Jeremy likes glitter. He was
throwing it around as he read. He said he ‘likes glamour’ at poetry readings. Very memorable. I knew the readers would be good, but I didn’t realise how good. At
the beginning of the event, Andrew McMillan was awarded the Alderburgh first
collection prize for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Physical</i> which
I’d recently reviewed for <a href="http://www.thecompassmagazine.co.uk/maria-rev/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Compass</i></a>.
Afterwards I got the bus back, ended up in The Crosskeys with various people and
then got lost on the way home. It’s very dark in Suffolk. </div>
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Next morning I woke up and listened to the seagulls. I
brought a few going home presents for the twins and got a lift to Snape with
Carole Bromley and her husband. It was a really full day. Even if people don’t
stay for the whole three days, then Saturday is the day when most people seem
to overlap. In general, one of the amazing things is how you meet people who
actually exist in real life, not just on screen or in print. It was a pleasure to meet people in the flesh like
Josephine Corcoran, Robin Houghton and John McCullough. There were so many others too.That’s
another reason for going, it's nice to chat with people you only meet on a screen or in letters. Mainly the
conversation revolved about the poetry and feeling overwhelmed - in a good way - by all the
poety things going on. I went to a great main reading and the Open Workshop,
ambitious to say the least with a roomful of about - who knows- seventy people
there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a bit of a break in the
middle of the day and I’d recommend leaving Snape for a bit and having a walk
around the marshes and surrounding countryside for a breather. I also made good
use of the second hand book stall and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Rialto</i> one, and ended up buying, among other things, many copies of seminal
poetry publication <i>Joe Soap’s Canoe</i>. Even though it’s all on-line, it’s good
to have the real thing.</div>
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Then back for more craft talks, coversations and readings. A
word on the main readings, they are one hour forty-five minutes long – yes
really. There’s usually a break of 15 minutes or so. I have to say and I really
mean this, they don’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">feel </i>like one
hour forty-five minutes. Honestly. The poetry’s top notch. I loved listening to Valérie Rouzeau reading in French, she had a gentle, charismatic presence. Kim
Addonizio was incredibly entertaining, she played the harmonica and in homage to Jeremy Reed threw
petals over her head. She also had time for a little drama. She asked three
male volunteers to come up to the stage and be her backing chorus of, erm, male
appendages. I was sitting next to Roy Marshall who bounced up to the stage,
good for him. If I were a man, I could have been an appendage too. It made
everything very lively and John Burnside was going to have a tough act to
follow. I didn’t think he’d be quite my thing at first, but I enjoyed listening
to him and his reading rounded off the evening for me. He also had a good sense
of humour and knew how to follow after Kim. Another thing that struck me is
that the organisers must be pretty damn good to choose readers who can make the
most of their readings. This was Ellen McAteer's first year as director of the festival, but due to a family matter was unable to come. Nevertheless it all ran like clockwork.</div>
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<i>Then</i> back to Aldeburgh on the coach that the festival put on. Instead of going back to the B&B
it was a mild evening (yes really for November) I went for a walk along the
sea front, sat on a bench and phoned home. It was so dark. You could see lots of
stars but I didn’t walk into the water or anything so that was ok. I was in a
lovely B&B. I always meet a few people who tell me about the festival when it was all by the seaside, but I tried to make the most of being near the beach this year. That night I stayed up late and leafed through my various purchases. Then
ZZZs. Then morning, seagull cries and breakfast. Then 4 hour drive home past
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with work and family. There were quite a few more things I would've liked to have attended. I did manage to photograph some of the twins’ teddies on
the beach before driving home, to provide photographic evidence for the girls that Owl and Giraffey had
indeed been to the seaside. I was still buoyant from the festival and didn’t
care how silly I looked. If you were there wondering, yes that was me.</div>
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Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-39575919631059288282015-10-21T00:43:00.001-07:002015-10-21T01:31:24.894-07:00Spots of Time: Marty McFly and the Time-Travelling Poet<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]-->Today’s Back to the Future day. Marty McFly will be joining
us all the way from 1985. How could I let this anniversary slip? The
first time I saw <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Back to the Future</i>
was at the end of the 80s with a hall full of pupils as our
end of term treat. It was on a box shaped TV and if you were sitting near the
back it was pretty much postage stamp size, but it was still considerably
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Anyway, I am using the film as an excuse to talk about
poetry. Or I’m using poetry as an excuse to talk about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Back to the Future</i>. Not sure. The title (not the Marty McFly bit obviously) refers to Wordsworth’s ‘spots
of time’ passage in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Prelude</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,</span> which
is about how poems bring into present consciousness certain memories or moments
in time. Recently, I’ve been thinking about how many poems crystallise moments
in time, while clarifying something about the present and we owe a debt to the Romantics for this approach. Certainly a lot of workshop
exercises ask students to think of a particular happening or thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then there’s James Schulyer’s method of writing
about a moment in time, or more specifically, writing about the present tense. Schulyer isn’t
remembering or reminiscing he’s writing about now, or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">his </i>now, as something like ‘<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/127/5#!/20597034">Dec. 28, 1974</a>’ shows. His <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">now</i> isn’t ours, so to me those poems
feel like a form of time travel and, oddly, also an exploration of the present.Can you draft such a poem, or do you write it all in one go?</div>
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This is a long way away from discussing DeLoreans and Flux Capacitors.
There were always bits of <i>Back to the Future</i> that got my imagination going, like the
photo of the disappearing McFly children; If mom and dad don’t kiss at the
dance, then no family and no Marty. In a photo he's taken along with him for the journey, all of them are fading fast. So Marty has to work fast to bring romance
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Of course if you haven’t seen the film, you won’t know
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did occur to me that the key years in the film, 1955, 1985 and 2015 are relevant
dates for me right now. Quite a coincidence. Firstly, some years ago I wrote a poem with 1955 in the title, which is
currently on John Foggin’s blog and can be found <a href="https://johnfoggin.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/reviewing-the-situation-and-a-polished-gem-11-maria-taylor/">here</a> and is halfway through the
piece. I’m very grateful to him for writing about my poems. Secondly, 1985 was
the year I went to Cyprus to visit my family over there for the first time as a girl. I
wrote a poem about that experience which features on Warwick University’s 50<sup>th</sup>
anniversary poetry page. I’m sharing that page with some fantastic poets, so
have a look <a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/warwick50/blog/50thpoetry/">here</a>. It also features a recording of the poem. I was asked to take part by David Morley as I was a student
there. Finally, I’m also including a 2015 poem, which is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">very</i> different to the other two, and is a tongue in cheek look at
my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">now</i>, on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poems in Which</i> site you can find<a href="http://poemsinwhich.com/2015/09/23/poem-in-which-i-lick-motherhood/"> here</a>.<br />
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Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-12667551962423753982015-09-14T04:35:00.000-07:002015-09-27T06:13:40.230-07:00August/September '15: London, Ladybirds and Lots of CoffeeMr. Commonplace and I were sitting round the breakfast table debating the pros and cons of social networking. I had a moment of insight, I said 'If it didn't happen on Facebook, then it didn't happen at all.' So the following blog post is what didn't happen, except it happened to me.<br />
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Over the late summer months I've been reviewing again. I realised it had been a while. It's a long process for me. I read the books, then read them again with a pencil and add lots of scribbles and dainty star things that are meant to remind me of something. Then I start drafting a review, and draft again. Then I usually draft again. I show it to Mr. Commonplace as a trial reader and ask if it makes sense. I don't set out to lavishly praise or destroy, I just want to give a reader an idea of what's going on and make sense of the poems for myself. I make a point of including lots of quotations so I can back up what I'm saying. The more poetry I read the more critical I become of my own. Overall I think that might be a good thing, but it doesn't quite feel like that right now. <br />
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Because it was summer, with everyone at home, I got up early on some days in order to have some review writing time. I'm less of a night owl now. So by the time it was officially breakfast I was already on the third or fourth super-caffeinated drink and making strange conversation about why lots of poets use those extra spaces between words and I still don't know what they're called. Then a little 'My Little Pony' on TV.<br />
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In terms of attending readings, it's often quiet during summer, but I did manage to catch Maitreyabandhu in Leicester, reading new poems and earlier ones, notably from <i>The Crumb Road</i> which I reviewed a couple of years ago. I love his 'Stephen' poems. Stephen died in a road accident when he was a teenager. There was a connection between the two, but as Maitreyabandhu said they were too young for it to be called love as such. Only the made-up future remains, 'Now you're twenty five / and have learnt the art of smiling.'<br />
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The new issue of <i>Under The Radar</i> came out in August. I'm Reviews Editor for UTR, which involves lots of reading and admin. It's a always a relief to see the reviews in print and I am indebted to the reviewers. In this issue they included: Peter Carpenter, Deborah Tyler-Bennett, John Foggin and Michael Thomas. There was also a special feature by Richard Skinner on his series of Vanguard Readings and the anthology which came out of this event. For the next issue there will be more female reviewers than male ones. I already have a review by Kim Moore. The one thing that bugs me about the editing is that so many books arrive and we can't review them all. It's a shame, but I'm so grateful to all those enthusiastic reviewers out there who write out of love and/or because they feel they need to and receive little if no pay. I thank you!<br />
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There was another reading was in early September in London and this time I was reading there myself. I was pretty nervous about the whole thing. Joanna, (cousin Commonplace) came along again, and although she's not a poetry type she probably will be before long if she keeps attending things. I brought a snazzy raincoat and Joanna said I looked smart and it gave the impression I had a proper job.<br />
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I read at the Betsey Trotwood with three other poets in my half of the evening, these were: <span class="fsl">Miriam Nash, Richard Osmond, Rena Minegnishi. They were great. I felt like an older thirty-something as they were all in their 20s. After the break there were readings from Stephen Kendall,
Kirsten Irving, Chris Dodd and Jasmine Cooray. But I missed those as I had to dash back to St. Pancras before I turned into a pumpkin. It was a lovely night though, organised by Miriam Nash and Roddy Lumsden. I also met a poet called Kathy Pimlott who had Notts connections and had written about the Carillon tower in Loughborough. It's a small world. When I got back to the Midlands it was very late and there were about 4 people around. It was quite a contrast to London with its huge crowds and diversions and pubs where people stand outside swigging £5 pints. It had a sense of unreality. Perhaps I dreamt it.</span><br />
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<span class="fsl">This is where the Ladybirds come in. This year is the 100th year of Ladybird books, which were initially published in Loughborough until 1999 before being sold off to Disney. Sad isn't it. I could just see myself at Ladybird books cycling off to work everyday. Anyway, there is a lovely display in Charnwood museum in the park where the Carillon Tower is - spooky. </span><br />
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<span class="fsl">So now I have a week or two before Uni kicks in (like a mule!) and autumn scatters all its leaves. It's early days, but there are plans for a new poetry thingy next year. A pamphlet. Won't say more yet. </span><br />
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<span class="fsl">See you later. Happy leaf kicking!</span>Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-27468402693048019822015-08-21T13:12:00.003-07:002015-08-21T13:24:41.622-07:00Now We Are FiveAugust is Commonplace's birthday month. Looking back, Commonplace was born on August 5th 2010, but I've only just got round to updating things, so no jelly and cake until today. When I started writing the blog it was a way of recording events and what I was up to. Keeping a poetry blog is never going to be be quite as popular as say paintballing, but I'm very surprised at how many people I seem to know have one too. Since 2010, I've read a great many blogs and new ones keep appearing all the time. I was never one for Sunday papers, but there have been many Sundays where I find myself catching up with different poetry blogs. It feels very odd that this has been an on/off habit for 5 years now. Like any birth there was a gestation period. I'd been 'poeting' a bit for a year or so before the blog. In spring 2010 I had my first poems published in 'Under The Radar.' It felt like quite a natural thing to want to discuss and make a record of some of the things that had been happening, like an on-line scrapbook or diary. It was also a way of talking about readings and the kind of poetry I was encountering.<br />
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I'm not sure what the future holds in store for Commonplace. I guess I'll keep going like I do now, but at some point things will be different. Some new form of technology may come in and make Blogger redundant, or I'll pack in poetry and join the circus perhaps. It did actually surprise me that I'd been keeping a blog for so long. Which leads me to the conclusion that I've actually been pursuing this poetry lark for a while now. I like looking at the stats and finding out where readers come from. Thank you to contributors and readers wherever you are.<br />
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<br />Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-42532016168732286852015-07-13T14:45:00.001-07:002015-07-13T14:54:55.831-07:00Some Recent Publications<br />
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It's been very exciting to have two poems in The Compass because it's a brand new magazine with some wonderful poems and reviews. The editors have a slightly different approach to most on-line magazines, in that rather than publishing the whole thing in one go they're spacing out poems and reviews over the course of a week. For me this has meant reading nearly everything on the site, simply because there's more time and space to do so. At the time of writing there's still another day's worth of poems to go live. I'm very chuffed to have two poems in <i>The Compass</i>. One of my poems is from the point of view of Virginia Woolf's half-sister Laura Stephen. You may not have heard of her. By our modern standards she probably had a form of autism, but by the standards of her day she was considered to be a suitable patient for an asylum. I wanted to explore the family tension and possibly (artistic license) the sense of a resolution, albeit an unsettled one.<br />
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There are also poems from Ian Duhig, Philip Gross, Pippa Little, Martha Sprackland, Hannah Lowe, Jonathan Edwards, Charlotte Gann, Katie Hale and others. Please click <a href="http://www.thecompassmagazine.co.uk/2015/07/">here</a> to have a look at the contents for issue 1 and then have a look at the other things the magazine has to offer. The editors are Andrew Forster, Lindsey Holland, with Kim Moore as Reviews Editor. </div>
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I also have a new poem on the Proletarian Poetry site. It;s not really a new poem, but one I wrote a few years ago. PP (as it's known for short), is a fabulous site edited by Peter Raynard, This site's focus is on poems which focus on the working class and working class lives. How's this for dedication - every week Peter publishes a poem which is accompanied with his own written commentary. Recent poets featured have included Richard Skinner, Catherine Ayres, Daniel Sluman and Jonathan Edwards. My poem is all about the bookies and you can find it <a href="http://proletarianpoetry.com/2015/07/02/a-day-at-the-races-by-maria-taylor/">here</a>. Peter has written a lovely, thoughtful piece to accompany the poem. I've really enjoyed reading the poems and the commentaries.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Lifesaving Poems</i>, Ed. Anthony Wilson, Bloodaxe Books, 2015</td></tr>
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At the time of writing I am sitting in my front room with
all the car alarms going off outside and a poorly 7 year old. It appears the
whole street has had a power cut. There
seem to be a lot of minor ailments in the Taylor household, days off from school are fairly
common. Miranda’s ok for now. She has her little ponies. The internet’s off for
a while, so while I have a full battery it seems like a good idea for another
blog post. What follows isn't a review, but a commentary. I have a bit of a
headache myself, bear with.</div>
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Over the last few weeks I've been reading and re-reading
Anthony Wilson’s remarkable anthology <i>Lifesaving
Poems</i>, which is published by Bloodaxe. I've never read a book quite like
this. For those not in the know, Anthony Wilson is a poet and a blogger. The
book began life as a notebook where Anthony chose a single poem from a poet,
that moved him, and then he copied it out in the book as a way of engaging with
the piece. I imagine that the physical
act of writing out a poem must have really helped to get under the skin of the
pieces and been a pleasure. In time Anthony went on to post these poems on his
blog with a brief prose summary as to why he had enjoyed them so much. This is
around the stage I bumped into the poems. These are not poems chosen with any bold
claims about being written by the ‘great and the good’ but are quite simply
poems that Anthony liked. So there’s a lot of love in the pages of this
anthology. The reasons for the poems being there are often very personal and it’s
very brave of Anthony to discuss such things. Brave is often an overused word,
but I can’t imagine many people willing to write in such a way. In those prose passages
we not only find out more about the poets and their poems, but also about
Anthony’s life and we’re given an insight into his illness with cancer. Not
only is this an anthology of poems but also an autobiography of sorts; another
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has also made me think about how I read poetry. I read quite a bit of prose but
I hardly ever re-read a novel cover to cover unless I have to, say for reasons
of teaching or studying. Even if I do there may be many years between readings.
Poetry is different. You can never (ever) read a good poem once. It’s
impossible. Like a piece of music, you’d never listen to a favourite song once.
Have you ever heard of a music lover who adored an album but only listened to
it once or twice. When I like a song I play it on repeat. With poetry I may
read a collection cover to cover but feel afterwards like I've not really read
it properly, there’s always more to dig out and experience. So when I read that
Anthony copied out these poems by hand I was rather touched. It appeared to me
that here was a reader who wanted to completely engage with the poems. This is poem-love.</div>
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The poems themselves cannot be linked together or grouped by
any particular patterns, other than an exploration of what it is to be human. Some of the names
and poems were familiar to me, but some were just names. The kind of poems by
poets you suspect will be good but have never fallen into your lap. That’s
where Anthony steps in. He’s an intermediary, introducing you to the poems like
interesting strangers at a party. He’s a kind host too. I never felt lectured,
not once. In fact I liked his honesty and gentle tone. Has anyone ever told you
(or almost shouted at you) ‘oh you must have read X poet. What do you mean you
haven’t read X! I read X in the playground in Juniors!!!’ I have never tasted
all the puddings in the world either, despite being a fan of dessert. The point, I guess, is how willing you are to read different things and Anthony is a great guide in that respect. I also
liked the fact that many of the poems are not by ‘poets of
note.’ Why should they be? It made me wonder what would go into my own ‘Lifesaving
Poems.’</div>
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In this book you’ll find individual poems (among others) by Sylvia Plath,
Thom Gunn, Carol Ann Duffy, Catherine Smith, Dorothy Nimmo, Ted Hughes, Ann
Sansom, Sharon Olds, Galway Kinnell, Jean Sprackland, Elizabeth Bishop, Jo
Shapcott, Cliff Yates, Moniza Alvi, Charles Simic, Hilary Menos, Janet Fisher, Adrienne Rich, Peter Sansom, Rose Cook, Peter Carpenter, Mary Oliver, Iain Crichton Smith, John Ash, Esther Morgan, W. N. Herbert, Kathleen Jamie, Mandy Sutter, Jackie Kay, Martin Stannard, Carol Rumens, Seamus Heaney, James Schulyer, Ian McMillan, Deryn Rees-Jones, Derek Mahon and Geoff Hattersley (glad to read him
here, hurrah!) I could go on there are so many poets here. Hopefully I'm giving
you an idea of scope. I imagine Anthony is an excellent teacher in
his day to day work, I certainly feel like I've learned a lot. In particular
there’s a very generous supply of American poets too. The book is a great introduction
or a very important affirmation of all these poems. </div>
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Lastly, there are many passages were Anthony talks about ‘poetry
exhaustion’ or what I call being ‘over-poetried.’ Sometimes this is very funny.
I can’t find the quote now (typical), but something about throwing it all in
and ‘becoming, say, a banker.’ Luckily he comes back to poetry.</div>
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Anthony Wilson has published two collections of poetry, <i>Love for Now</i> and <i>Riddance</i> as well as <i>Lifesaving
Poems</i>. To find out more about the blog and Anthony’s poetry and work
click <a href="http://anthonywilsonpoetry.com/">here</a>.<br />
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P.S. I copy and pasted my blog entry from a word doc and waited for the web to heal, in case you were wondering how this got on-line! Apart from power cuts I've had lots of internet problems recently, perhaps this is trying to tell me something regarding time spent on the web...</div>
Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259947748042848266.post-65662952044359995022015-06-11T04:43:00.000-07:002015-06-11T05:50:07.343-07:00Covering LettersI just read something about an editor criticising the way poets write covering letters when submitting poems. It was mainly about how email allows for less scrupulous poets to fire off copy and pasted subs with no individual attention paid to the editor to whom they're sending. I remember getting one when I briefly edited, addressed to a completely different magazine. But, like Joni Mitchell, I've been on both sides now. We make mistakes. This got me thinking about the pitfalls of sending in a series of questions...<br />
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1. Am I being too familiar?<br />
2. Am I being too distant?<br />
3. Should I be more familiar?<br />
4. Should I be more distant?<br />
5. Does it matter that I have children?<br />
6. Does the year in which I was born matter for a biography?<br />
7. Should I be business-like?<br />
8. Would it be nicer if it were handwritten?<br />
9. My printer is playing up. If I hand-wrote the letter would they think I was deranged? (Especially with my handwriting).<br />
10. If I list off the magazines I've been published in would they think I was going on too much?<br />
11. Would it be radical if I just didn't include a biography?<br />
12. FONT!! What font should I use?<br />
13. Is Times New Roman too dull? I am a Garamond sort of poet? Don't get me started on font size...<br />
14. I read one of the editor's poems and I genuinely liked it but would I sound like a sucker-upper if I mentioned it even though I may never meet this person and they might like to know that their hours spent writing poems met with some approval?<br />
15. They've been nominated for some prize or other so they probably <i>do</i> know?<br />
16. Or they don't?<br />
17. Should I just let the letter and the whole sub 'rest' for a few more days before sending, even though I said that last week?<br />
18. Would one of those 'funny biographies' where the author drinks tea, has a liking for chocolate digestives and 'can be found writing poems in Ashby-de-la-Zouch bus station' stick in their mind?<br />
19. Are chocolate digestives too middle of the road? Should I go for Maple Pecan Danish pastries?<br />
20. Would it drive them up the wall?<br />
21. I don't even know if Ashby de la Zouch has a bus station or not? I'm guessing perhaps-maybe not. Next time I'll look.<br />
22. ...should I just sound more business like?<br />
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And finally...<br />
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I have posted the bloody thing and having stressed over the above forgot to say 'thank you.' Always say thank you....Maria Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509743355972478865noreply@blogger.com2