I've received some wonderful work from North Shore poets this week, for the Guerilla Poetry event.
Keep it coming!
As it's a busy season, I've decided I'll accept work throughout the holidays. So don't feel you can't send something after 1st Dec.
The first, and largest, posting of poems will happen on 16th December, but any work submitted after that will be displayed. I'll try to put poems up on a weekly basis.
Don't forget, the poem doesn't have to be written about or in Devonport, but should be appropriate to the location.
Check blog posts below for ideas for themes - they might remind you of something you have in your back catalogue that would be perfect to send in, or that with a little tweaking would be ideal.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Auckland North Shore Poets Please!
Any poem appropriate for the location of Devonport village, or sea front will be accepted for consideration. Poems to be displayed around Devonport from 16th December throughout the summer holiday.
Post here as a comment, or email guerillapoetevents@gmail.com
You can visit Devonport and write a poem inspired by a specific location, or submit a poem (or several) that you've already written that you consider suitable.
Clearly the theme of the sea is applicable! Other themes or subjects might be:
Pohutukawa
City view
Ferry
Wharf
Arriving / Departing / Journeys
Beach
Sea
Rocks and rock pools.
Boats
Anchors (there are a couple of large old ones on display here and there)
The Navy
Cafes
Coffee
Icecream
The horse wagon (we have a wagon pulled by two huge Clydesdales that traverses the village)
The Morton Bay Fig Tree (of fig trees in general)
Shopping
Fountain(s)
Any style of poetry, shorter poems preferred.
Post here as a comment, or email guerillapoetevents@gmail.com
You can visit Devonport and write a poem inspired by a specific location, or submit a poem (or several) that you've already written that you consider suitable.
Clearly the theme of the sea is applicable! Other themes or subjects might be:
Pohutukawa
City view
Ferry
Wharf
Arriving / Departing / Journeys
Beach
Sea
Rocks and rock pools.
Boats
Anchors (there are a couple of large old ones on display here and there)
The Navy
Cafes
Coffee
Icecream
The horse wagon (we have a wagon pulled by two huge Clydesdales that traverses the village)
The Morton Bay Fig Tree (of fig trees in general)
Shopping
Fountain(s)
Any style of poetry, shorter poems preferred.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Poems for Gorillaz
Well, I feel like I'm just writing for myself, and maybe I am! But never mind, because I am a guerilla and guerilla poetry in Devonport will happen with one or a hundred guerillas.
What I have mainly learnt in life is that if you don't do it, no one else will. And if you do do it, perhaps no one else will, but at least you will have done it!
Hence, at 27 I went travelling around the world on my own. No one else I knew was doing it. There wasn't anyone else interested in coming with me - not even my long-term boyfriend at the time. So I went. I had a blast. It changed my life. As a result of just doing it, I ended up living in not just a different continent but a different hemisphere, and subjecting myself to adventures I would never have thought would come my way. Life may not always be coming up roses, but I relish the learning from every bump in the road I've ended up on.
Long story short.... due to an apparent general malaise on the part of local poets, or perhaps a lack of local poets, I have been researching existing poems that have resonance to places in Devonport, which will be displayed along with some of my own work. Poets who have written in and around the area were my first port of call, but some of my own personal favourites will also appear.
If you're out there, poets, I'd love to receive your work to display in our unique and rather fabulous city village.
What I have mainly learnt in life is that if you don't do it, no one else will. And if you do do it, perhaps no one else will, but at least you will have done it!
Hence, at 27 I went travelling around the world on my own. No one else I knew was doing it. There wasn't anyone else interested in coming with me - not even my long-term boyfriend at the time. So I went. I had a blast. It changed my life. As a result of just doing it, I ended up living in not just a different continent but a different hemisphere, and subjecting myself to adventures I would never have thought would come my way. Life may not always be coming up roses, but I relish the learning from every bump in the road I've ended up on.
Long story short.... due to an apparent general malaise on the part of local poets, or perhaps a lack of local poets, I have been researching existing poems that have resonance to places in Devonport, which will be displayed along with some of my own work. Poets who have written in and around the area were my first port of call, but some of my own personal favourites will also appear.
If you're out there, poets, I'd love to receive your work to display in our unique and rather fabulous city village.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Let's get writing
Come on all ye poets!
How are you all going? I hope you're out there writing!
I've been looking through my own back-catalogue too, and found some poems that fit perfectly in some locations around Devonport.
New work is great - but if old work fits, use it! We need the general public to see and appreciate poetry, to enliven, inspire and embolden! The more the better.
BE BOLD.
How are you all going? I hope you're out there writing!
I've been looking through my own back-catalogue too, and found some poems that fit perfectly in some locations around Devonport.
New work is great - but if old work fits, use it! We need the general public to see and appreciate poetry, to enliven, inspire and embolden! The more the better.
BE BOLD.
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