Interesting Facts About The Poets #3

Alison Dunne's poem'How To Build A Father', cunningly retitled 'How To Build A Man' was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2003.

When she discovered what the Pushcart Prize was she felt delighted.

Now the poem is the subject of a blog competition.

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#1 Eleanor Rigby

A lonely girl lays alone
in an ebony bier.
No George or Ringo
linger near.


#2 Leonard Cohen

A Canada Donne
honed a coded chord
and anchored an ache.


#3 Marilyn Monroe

A neon memory:
Rimmel eye liner,
nylon élan;
a Romeo enroller
(amor on amyl),
lay in a lonely room.
A Miller memoir -
no Norma anymore.


#4 Charles Bukowski

Sick lecher or slick hero?
No rosebush -
he howls, wails, sulks.

Alehouse brawler;
whore abuser who wrecks Buicks.

Raw oral shocker - he swears,
bickers, bawls.

Biro-sucker slouch:
cruel, bleak, crass.

A halo-hacker:
his work kicks ass.


Eddie Gibbons

Interesting Facts About The Poets #2

Eddie Gibbons works as a Subsea Designer
in the Oil Biz. He uses AutoCAD to design
Downhole Tools which incorporate
Slick Joints, Space Out Subs, Ball,
Flapper and Bleed Off Valves.
The Downhole Tools fit in a BOP Stack.
All the parts need a FAT Certificate.

Time and Again

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oan thi waw
sesitz timety

get thi bairnz reddy
get thi hoos tidy
get thi messijis in
get thi tee oan
get inty bed
an gee um hiz conjuggles

thur wizza time when
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naw thur wizny


Alison Flett

David Morley's Boots

The Poet is wearing Doc Martens.
You are wearing Doc Martens - from eBay.
The Poet is an academic.
You are not an academic but have 2 A levels.
The poet has at least 2 A levels for
he runs the Creative Writing Dept.
of a respected university.
You run an old Peugeot.
The Poet may have a bike.
The poet definitely has a wife.
You do not have a wife - you
are not married at all.
The Poet's got a nice suit -
a good weight shirt - white - no tie.
His Doc Martens look like he bought them new
not from a woman in Pwhllheli
the unofficial capital of the Lyn Peninsula
who described them as 'gently worn'.

Alison Dunne

(who recently attended a workshop run by David Morley.)

Interesting Facts About The Poets # 1

Alison Flett was the winner of the Hi Arts Hogmanay short story 2006.

Alison's story explores 'the horror and fear of domestic violence and isolation and is a vivid, sometimes shocking contemporary take on the notion of the 'ghost story'.'

You can read it too. If you dare ...

Hugh Reed Without His Underpants

The upstart singer of the now-defunct Glasgow Skiffle Group, Hugh Reed and the Velvet Underpants has once again tried to upstage me! On hearing that I was forming a new boygirl poetry band he went on a recruitment drive to enlist unsuspecting young ladies into his new Glasgow Piffle Group, Hugh Reed and the Touching the Velvet Underpants. Nice try, Hugh, la - but I bet they think a villanelle is a gangsters moll!

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