Monday, 29 April 2013
Saturday, 27 April 2013
Google Poetics
Google Poetics is born when Google autocomplete suggestions are viewed as poems.
Google’s algorithm offers searches after just a few keystrokes when typing in the search box, in an attempt to predict what the user wants to type. The combination of these suggestions can be funny, absurd, dadaistic - and sometimes even deeply moving.
There is, however, more to these poems than just the occasional chuckle. The Google autocomplete suggestions are based on previous searches by actual people all around the world. In the cold blue glow of their computer screens, they ask “why am I alone” and “why do fat girls have high standards”. They wonder how to roll a joint and whether it is too early to say “I love you”. They seek information on ninjas, cannibals, and Rihanna, and sometimes they just ask “am I better off dead?”
See some recent ones on the website here
Now try your own and email them screenshots. General screenshot instructions: http://take-a-screenshot.org/ Snipping tool is good if you have Windows 7.
Aim for poetic results. Avoid common, trite phrases such as ones including the word “lyrics”.
Read yours out loud first.
Maybe a phrase or phrase couplet will spark a longer poem.
Thursday, 25 April 2013
UK Poetry Magazines - The Wolf
The Wolf.
It was founded in April 2002 with a clear emphasis on publishing emerging new poets alongside more established writers. It is now published three times a year and edited by James Byrne .
You can subscribe by PayPal or buy it in the Winding Stair in Dublin.
Please send submissions to the following email address:
submissions@thewolfpoetry.org.uk
Please submit no more than 5 poems.
The editor prefers poems to hold a modernist aesthetic over the postmodern. Experimental over mainstream. Serious over light verse.
Website: http://www.wolfmagazine.co.uk/
You can read an online version here from 2008
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Boyle Arts Festival Poetry Competition 2013
Prizes: €500 first prize plus 4 x €50 highly commended.
Deadline: 15 June.
Shortlisted poems will be notified ahead of the awards which will be held on Sunday 28 July 2013 in King House, Boyle at 7pm.
Rules:
Entry Fee €5 per poem
Entry form must accompany poems. (from the website)
Judge
Poems will be judged by Geraldine Mills who has published two collections of short stories and four collections of poetry.
Workshop
Geraldine will also be hosting a poetry workshop, "Wordstitching" on Sunday 28th July between 11.30 and 1pm, €20.
This workshop is aimed at writers who wish to explore the elements that are necessary to produce a good poem. Using a series of short writing exercises, participants will engage with weaving words together to create a poem that is a primary experience for writer and reader.
More information and entry forms from the website
Keep an eye on it for the festival programme.
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Five Words International Poetry Competition 2013-14
Each week on Tuesday at midday (GMT), from the 16th of April 2013, five words are posted at this link. Entrants have one week to compose and submit one (or more) poem(s): poems that must include all five words.
At noon next Tuesday, these words will no longer be eligible, and replaced with five new words. The competition will run for a total of forty weeks, until the last week of January 2014. One winner will win 500 euro and if available, then invited to read at Ó Bhéal’s seventh anniversary event, on Monday 14th of April, 2014 (an additional travel fee of 100 euro plus B&B accommodation will be provided for this)..
For this week’s words, submissions and guidelines click here.
This week's words are
january nail tender celery oviform
Entry fee €5 per poem.
Poems cannot exceed 50 lines in length (including line breaks)
Friday, 19 April 2013
New Poetry Divas Pamphlet
The fabulous Poetry Divas are working on a brand new poetry pamphlet. It will follow in the footsteps of
(do pamphlets step? do pamphlets have feet?)
- Poetry Divas 1 (The Pink One)
- Poetry Divas 2 (The Blue One)
- Poetry Divas 3 (The Green One)
We are going to name this one, imaginatively,
Poetry Divas 4
and this one's colour will be purple. Oh yes!
It will feature some favourites and some new poems from regulars and will be available from Saturday 27th April when we will be reading at the Dundalk Book Festival.
Taking pre orders now if you can't make it to Dundalk.
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Eleventh John Hewitt Spring Festival
This
year's Spring Festival takes place on Friday 10th & Saturday 11th
May 2013 at Carnlough’s Londonderry Arms Hotel on the Antrim coast.
This, the eleventh John Hewitt Spring Festival, offers an exciting day of literature and the arts with Ronan Bennett, Louise Doughty, Sarfraz Manzoor, Kim Lenaghan, Cherry Smyth, Kenneth Irvine, Michael McKimm, Elaine Gaston, Heather Newcombe, Cahal Dallat and Anne-Marie Fyfe.
The theme for this year's Spring Festival and Summer School is "Living Among Strangers".
Full Spring Festival programme (Friday 10th & Saturday 11th May 2013):
Friday 10th May 2013:
7:00pm - Creative Writing Workshop - Cherry Smyth
Saturday 11th May 2013:
11:00am Coffee
2:30pm Race, Religion, Rock ’n ’Roll: Sarfraz Manzoor in conversation with C.L. Dallat
4:30pm Local Poets: Cherry Smyth, Heather Newcombe, Elaine Gaston and Michael McKimm
7:00pm Dinner
8:30pm Living Among Strangers: Ronan Bennett and Louise Doughty introduced by Anne-Marie Fyfe
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