Just to show you how some weeks go, last week was
one of those weeks without any shadow of doubt creative writing wise.
Monday first off all, I ended up with my fortnightly visit over to
my buddies in Trio Writers, my writing and performance group
where besides doing our usual writing discussion, we also did a bit more
work on our forthcoming creative writing open mike event ‘Poets & Pasties’
(http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=6340&post=46484&uid=15947196131#/event.php?sid=64f460e90e720b9fa56b8ba22e13fb1c&refurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fs.php%3Fref%3Dsearch%26init%3Dq%26q%3Dpoets%2Band%2Bpasties%26sid%3D64f460e90e720b9fa56b8ba22e13fb1c&eid=35871106458) which will happen on 26thNovember 2008.
We did a writing excerise or too, which I produced one or
two new pieces which gave me a laugh doing, but certainly
not something worth posting here shall we say.
Tuesday night involved another trip over to another writing
workshop I have recently joined called ‘Animal Writes’ which
is run by the lovely Dominic Berry
Dom hosts this at the On the 8th Day café bar which is on
Oxford Road near Oxford Road train station.
Dom started this group off the other month and I had such a
good laugh, I came along to the second meeting.
The group this time truth be told was a bit smaller this
time and we couldn’t sit where we sat last time which
didn’t make life easy sometimes with the level of the noise,
but it was good fun and the writing workshop we did
produced a poem which was a good first draft on a Ode
to Geri Halliwell (More on that later).
Wednesday Night ended up popping over to Poetica
(http://www.myspace.com/poeticamanchester) apoetry
discussion group.
until I got dragged into other things. Was nice to be
back although I do know now aside from the next
meeting, it is unlikely I will be back until next year. What
was pleasing was there was a lot of new members there
and quite a few I hope will return over and over in the
future. As I may have mentioned in the past in cases like
Animal Writes and Poetica, the group need to keep attracting
new members if they hope to survive etc and certainly from
looking at all of the people in Poetica I didn’t know, this
looks like the case.
event for Poems called ‘How many poets does it take to
change a light bulb’? (which I did a nice little poem slot
featuring my love ode to Geri – see mentioned above
and another poem called ‘She) with my pals Vicky and
Tony!
If I am honest, I didn’t really enjoy the event so
I was glad I was one of the first few people on and it felt
like at least the audience bothered listening to me which
they certainly didn’t for some of the later people!
What was amazing was the people in there that
were from all over the country and the praise I got
from some people which was brilliant! Gave some
good confidence that!
I took a recording off this reading for those
interested and it can be downloaded for
FREE from
http://www.archive.org/details/andytonyvickyhowmanypoetsoct08
Friday by this point I was knackered, ended up
popping over after work to see Dominic Berry
at the Royal Exchange straight after work in
a nice evening show, which was a good show
too as I felt Dominic looked so confident in that show.
I took a recording of that show also..
It can be downloaded FREE from here
http://www.archive.org/details/domberryroyalexchangeoct08
Saturday I was over a mate’s doing things not creative, but
Sunday despite the fact I was knackered I went out to a
Write Out Loud in Middleton and had a great time there.
This oddly enough was recorded and downloaded
FREE here also
http://www.archive.org/details/andynalexhtonywriteoutloudoct08
By yesterday I was totally knackered as you
may have guessed and I then decided to have a week off
after week and rest!
So I am…
(Picture is a facebook drawing of me performing at
How Many Poets?)
1 comment:
Hey mate, get rid of all that mumbo jumbo computer script on the blog! Good work though doing all these recordings and stuff. Very helpful. And what a busy week, by gum.
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