One Love, One Heart

Let's get together and feel all right...

Poets reading their poems...

The Forward prize tried to add glamour or celebrity by bringing in actors to read the poems. As if the poets, lacking in a Rada training course, could not inject the right meaning or excitement to their own words. Don't get me wrong, I love listening to actors read, or rather act, out lines that other people have written.

But there is something very interesting and intimate hearing the inflection the poet chooses to put into their own words, the pauses, the emphasis on certain words I might have skimmed when reading it on a page. Plus, the pleasure of their personal accent, tone, personality that then becomes attached to the poem when I read it in the future and still hear the poet's voice in my head.

Elizabethan purse

Frog purse, courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

getting ready for National Poetry Day tomorrow...

By John William Waterhouse

I am going to be doing poetry activities with the children at the local school tomorrow. The theme is 'Water' so I have had an enjoyable day today reading different poetry anthologies and wallowing in various water themed poems, collecting some together to read with the children. For the reception class I have made the top half of a mermaid and I am going to get them to help me make her scales and write words on that they think describes life under the sea.

The Mermaid

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

I.

Who would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Under the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of pearl,
On a throne?

Season 4 GOT: I want Arya to get her assassin face on...

Arya's theme music in my mind...

Use the coin, kill all your enemies
(don't kill the Hound though, I like him!)

Sagrad: Grimes

love love love this music