[News] PIW 1 March 2011

PIW 1 March 2011

In this issue of PIW, we present poetry written in English – Irish English, Australian English and Aboriginal English, poetry which embodies cultural and linguistic traditions of specific communities while at the same time exploring the intersections of and the gaps between languages, places and cultures. The Australia domain presents the unique and memorable writing of two remarkable poets, both Aboriginal Australians: Ali Cobby Eckermann and Lionel Fogarty. On the Ireland domain, there is work by Irish writers who live outside of their home country: poet, translator and academic Bernard O'Donoghue and Ailbhe Darcy, whose first collection, Imaginary Menagerie, is out later this year.

Read the full editorial, articles and poems in the current issue of PIW at www.poetryinternationalweb.org

Poem of the Week

HALO

Ailbhe Darcy (Ireland)

Clip of the Month

LOOK AT HIM

Hasso Krull (Estonia)

New audio on PIW

In the last few weeks, we have uploaded new audio recordings of poetry readings by Lêdo Ivo (Brazil), Ursula Ankjær Olsen (Denmark), 

Eugenijus Ališanka (Lithuania), Hassan El Ouazzani (Morocco), Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi (Sudan) and Nyk de Vries (Netherlands).

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Poetry Can Newsletter March 2011

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Poetry Can Newsletter March 2011 Welcome to the March Poetry Can Newsletter.  The brochures for Bristol Spring Poetry Festival (Friday 15th to Sunday 17th April) have now been distributed around Bristol and can be picked up from arts venues and cafes for free. Inside you will find details of all the lovely events happening for the festival and around Bristol in April. Make sure you grab yourself a copy to peruse and then get booking your tickets, as tickets for the shows at Arnolfini are bound to go fast.     You can book tickets NOW from Arnolfini by visiting Arnolfini website at www.arnolfini.org.uk by calling the Arnolfini box office on 0117 9172300 / 01 or by emailing boxoffice@arnolfini.org.uk For a FREE Spring Poetry Festival Brochure please email your name and address to info@poetrycan.co.uk  Poetry Can In This Issue Poem of the Month Fire  Probably I am an ordinary middle-class   believer in individual rights, the word   "freedom" is simple to me, it doesn't mean   the freedom of any class in particular. Politically naive, with an average   education (brief moments of clear vision are its main nourishment), I remember   the blazing appeal of that fire which parches   the lips of the thirsty crowd and burns books and chars the skin of cities. I used to sing   those songs and I know how great it is to run with others; later, by myself,   with the taste of ashes in my mouth, I heard   the lie's ironic voice and the choir screaming   and when I touched my head I could feel the arched skull of my country, its hard edge.    Adam Zagajewski Translated by Renata Gorczynski From Selected Poems Publisher: Faber and Faber (7 Oct 2004) ISBN-13: 978-0571224258 Notices Ledbury Poetry Competition - deadline 28th April Ledbury Poetry Festival is now open for submissions. £4.50 for the first poem, £2.50 for each subsequent poem. For full details and to download an application form visit: http://www.poetry-festival.com/poetry-competition.html   Arts 4 Human Rights seeks spoken word artists Arts 4 Human Rights are interested in hearing from artists addressing the following themes in their work: Migration, Roma, Social Europe, Media Pluralism for the |Transeuropa Festival in early May 2011. For further info visit: www.arts4humanrights.org.uk    Wild Ways to Writing Creative writing workshops for adullts ina  natural setting with Helen Moore. Dates: March 19th, April 16th, May 21st, June 18th  - 10.30am - 3.00pm Price: £25/workshop or £80 for all workshops. For further info email helen.l.moore@gmail.com     Poetry&Words at Glastonbury now open for submissions Last few days to get you applications in for Poetry&Words at Glastonbury. They are looking for a wide range of experienced poets who are good readers/performers and willing to camp in a noist field for a weekend.   To apply, e-mail poetryandwords@hotmail.co.uk with a copy of your artistic C.V. and a link to audio and/or visual recordings of your work. If you wish to apply by post, please e-mail us to request our postal address. Closing date: Midnight on Sunday 6th March 2011 Applications will not be considered if received after this date. More info at at: www.facebook.com/poetryandwords    Graduate Certificate in Participatory Arts and Media Professional Practice UWE accredited continuing professional development courses aimed at arts graduates or those working in any art form with groups in education, healthcare or the community sectors. Participatory Arts Project Management: Professional Practice  Open for applications now and closing on 18 March 2011  For full course details click here: http://courses.uwe.ac.uk/z30cpd044/2010#about       Cheltenham Poetry Festival Tickets now on Sale For details of the festival and tickets visit: www.cheltenhampoetryfest.co.uk   The Lightship International Poetry Prize Judge: Jackie Kay Prize: £1,000 Deadline: 30 June 2011 Entry fee: £8.00 For previously unpublished poems up to 200 words. Open competition. One poem per entry fee. No restriction on the number of entries. Full details on website: www.lightshippublishing.co.uk    Spoken/Written Bulletin SW website Spoken/Written Bulletin SW covers the entire southwest region and contains a wealth of information about all things live and literary. Sign up now!    www.cartwheels-collective.co.uk/Spoken_Written_Bulletin.html   Professional Development Surgeries Poetry Can offers free professional development surgeries for poets in the region. These will be available on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. To book a surgery call Colin Brown, Director of Poetry Can, on:  (0117) 933 0900  Poetry Can address The Poetry Can 12 Great George Street, Bristol,BS1 5RH Tel: (0117) 933 0900       website: www.poetrycan.co.uk e: info@poetrycan.co.uk   Events (chronological) We would like to ask all events organisers to please update us whenever you can at:  info@poetrycan.co.uk or visit www.poetrycan.co.uk to submit your event to the website, and your event will be added to this newsletter.  Events listing as accurate as possible at time of publishing using information received.   Poetry Unlimited - Cafe Kino, Stokes Croft, Bristol Date: Tues 1st March     Time: 11.30am     Price: Free Bring a couple of poems to share, another poet's or your own. Theme of the month: Fear Ffi: mand@gentlyblown.co.uk   Lansdown Poetry Night - The Lansdown, Clifton Rd, Bristol Date: Tues 1st March       Time: 8.00pm      Price: Free Round-the-table poetry and discussion group. All welcome to bring one or two of their own poems to read. Ffi: charlesthompson8000@yahoo.co.uk   Word of Mouth - The Thunderbolt, Bath Rd, Bristol Date: Weds 2nd March     Time: 8.00pm      Price: Free With musician Shaun McCrindle and poet Ian Sills. Hosted by Bertel Martin   Bristol Can Openers - Bristol Central Library, College Green, Bristol Date: Thurs 3rd March   Time: 12.00 midday       Price: Free Open floor for all poets hosted by Glen Carmichael Featured poet Ros Martin  A time to listen to and chat with other poets.  Ffi: info@poetrycan.co.uk Arts House Open Mic - The Arts House, 108a Stokes Croft, Bristol  Date: Thurs 3rd March    Time: 8.30pm      Price: Free A poetry friendly unplugged open mic with alternating hosts Jeremy Toombs and Jules Landau. Ffi: www.theartshouse.org    Bath Literature Festival, Fado Poetry - Mission Theatre, Bath Date: Sun 6th March     Time: 8.00pm     Price: £8/£7 Mimi Khalvati presents an hour of poems in English and Portuguese with music from Helder Moutinho. Ffi: boxoffice@bathfestivals.org.uk    Uni-verse celebrating international poets and poetry  - BRLSI, 16-18 Queens Square, Bath Date: Weds 9th March      Time: 1.00pm    Price: £4 / £2 Will Stone reading from his collection Glaciation and discussing the art of translating poetry. Ffi: nikkibennett27@hotmail.com    International Women's Day reading - Central Library, Bath Date: Weds 9th March        Time: 6.00pm       Price: Free Readings by Carrie Etter, Dikra Ridha, Linda Saunders and Ruth Sharman. Hosted by Nikki Bennett      Portcullis Poets -  Eugenie House, 1-3 Royal York Crescent, Bristol  Date: Thurs 10th March   Time: 8.00pm    Price: Free or £1 towards wine Open reading and discussion. Optional theme: Winds Bring your own poems or those of others, or just come to listen.   Ffi:jdms@hotmail.co.uk    Arts House Open Mic - The Arts House, 108a Stokes Croft, Bristol Date: Thurs 10th March     Time: 8.30pm      Price: Free A poetry friendly unplugged open mic with alternating hosts Jeremy Toombs and Jules Landau. Ffi: www.theartshouse.org   International Women's Day reading   Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Sap University, Newton Park Campus. Date: Fri 11th March       Time: 1.00pm      Price: Free Reading with poets Daisy Behagg, Nikki Bennett, Dominique Dunne, Zoe Howarth, Dikra Ridha and Mimi Thibo. Presented by Carrie Etter.   Acoustic Night -Halo Cafe Bar, 141 Gloucester Rd, Bristol Date: Mon 14th Feb   Time: 8.15pm    Price: Free (donations) Bristol's longest running open mic poetry and music night. Sign up from 7.45 for a slot. Ffi: anditrans@hotmail.com Facebook: Fans of acousticnightbristol   Poetry Pulpit - The Left Bank, Chelteham Rd, Bristol  Date: Sun 13th March       Time:8.30pm      Price: Free Open mic plus guests. featuring: Mimi Thebo, Julie Knight and music by Nuala Honan. Sign up on the night for a slot   Brizzlemania 8 - The Arts House, 108a Stokes Croft, Bristol Date: Tues 15th March      Time: 8.00pm      Price: £3 Open poetry slam plus featured guests. Sign up for the slam on the night.   Features: The Sunshine Kid, Julian Ramsey-Wade and Jeremy Toombs Ffi: jack.dean@bathspa.org   Arts House Open Mic - The Arts House, 108a Stokes Croft, Bristol Date: Thurs 17th March     Time: 8.30pm      Price: Free A poetry friendly unplugged open mic with alternating hosts Jeremy Toombs and Jules Landau. Ffi: www.theartshouse.org   ASP Poetry Circle -Broadlands School, Keynsham Ffi: mandd@gentlyblown.co.uk   Date: Thurs 17th March      Time: 7.30pm      Price: Free Bring a couple of poems to share, another poet's or your own.     Word of Mouth - Bristol Old Vic, King St, Bristol, BS1 4ED Date: Thurs 17th March         Time: 8.00pm      Price: £8/£6 concs Spoken word performances from some of the UK's most renowned poets hosted by Byron Vincent. Featuring: Luke Wright, Elvis McGonagall and Liz Greenfield. Ffi: www.bristololdvic.co.uk    Soul of the Earth book launch - Waterstones, Milsom St, Bath Date: Mon 21st March     Time: 6.30pm     Price: Free Launch of the first Awen anthology of eco-spiritual poetry edited by Jay Ramsey, with a group reading from performance poets. Ffi: www.awenpublications.co.uk   Arts House Open Mic - The Arts House, 108a Stokes Croft, Bristol Date: Thurs 24th March    Time: 8.30pm      Price: Free A poetry friendly unplugged open mic with alternating hosts Jeremy Toombs and Jules Landau. Ffi: www.theartshouse.org   Acoustic Night -Halo Cafe Bar, 141 Gloucester Rd, Bristol Date: Mon 28th March   Time: 8.15pm    Price: Free (donations) Bristol's longest running open mic poetry and music night. Sign up from 7.45 for a slot. Ffi: anditrans@hotmail.com Facebook: Fans of acousticnightbristol   A Night on the Tiles - The Egg, Theatre Royal, Bath Date: Weds 30th March      Time: 1.30pm and 7.30pm     Price:£7/£5 A spoken-word performance where gangsters, high-rollers and con-men compete in the scrabble game to end them all. Written and performed by Pen-ultimate collective. Ffi: www.theatreroyal.org.uk     Also on 31st March      Please remember to check the Poetry Can website for further events news. The website is updated on a weekly basis. Poetry Can is a poetry development agency based in Bristol UK.   Poetry Can believes that poetry has a unique power to explore and express the experiences of life: poetry affects everyone. Poetry Can sees its role as enabling and encouraging as many people as possible across communities to get involved in poetry activity, raising awareness and enjoyment of this powerful art form. Bristol Spring Poetry festival 2011 Friday 15 to Sunday 17 April 2011       Bristol Spring Poetry Festival brings together the most entertaining, inspirational and awarding-winning poets and performers from Bristol, the South West, the UK and the World.   Featuring: Carol Ann Duffy Crash! Bash! Trash! Spoken Word All Stars Opaque and events around Bristol.   Click here for preview    For a FREE Spring Poetry Festival Brochure please email your name and address to info@poetrycan.co.uk  Tickets for events at the Arnolfini  are on sale NOW    Arnolfini Box Office:  0117 917 2300 / 01   Email: boxoffice@arnolfini.org.uk Online: www.arnolfini.org.uk Or in Person: Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA   Advance booking is advised. Links Poetry Society Arvon Foundation Cyprus Well The Poetry Library The Poetry Book Society Poetry Archive Writers and Artists Yearbook The Writing Centre Asian Arts Agency  Write Out Loud Poetry Bookshop Poetry Books Contemporary Writers   Supported by Arts Council England

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[Poetry Chaikhana] Kobayashi Issa - Buddha's body

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Buddha's body By Kobayashi Issa (1763 - 1828) English version by David G. Lanoue   Buddha's body accepts it... winter rain - from the website http://haikuguy.com/issa/   / Photo by piddy77 /

============ Thought for the Day: Psychic stillness is so difficult because it makes us naked to ourselves. This is why self-acceptance is essential. Otherwise, we never give ourselves permission to be still. ============

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Hi Omss -

I could just live on the nourishment of haiku every day. A few lines, so short they're almost incoherent... the way they teeter on the edge of meaning and occasionally slip into the void... Something about that desperate line dares the mind to burst open with insight.

This haiku, for example -- I don't read it as being about enduring uncomfortable weather. There is more than that here. There is acceptance, a quiet contentment, even a welcoming. It is about the recognition of the rightness of things in their season. And that touches the eternal. The Buddha is simply here, always here, always present, and we feel the winter rain is simply passing by for its short moment. The rain touches the Buddha's face, and then moves on. So too the wind, the sun, the rising of grasses, the blooming of flowers. They come. The Buddha sits, smiles, accepts. And the world moves along again in its cycles of life, becoming and unbecoming, while the Buddha remains.

And what is the Buddha's body but us, our very nature? The body arises, the seasons of the self blossom and turn inward again, and through it all there is a still point within us quietly watching, and accepting, and smiling.

Ivan

 

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