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Don’t you love a typo? The words first up are the words I ended up with, the second the words I actually wanted. I thought the last one was interesting. Wouldn’t it be awesome if poems came with pom poms?
Deaf – Death
Snout – About
Poo – Poor
Pom – Poems
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‘My writing is rubbish compared with everybody else’s’
‘Well, don’t compare your writing with everyone else’s then,’
Open for manuscripts Bad Betty Press Split Lip Press
Poetry / Fiction Ice Pop Poetry Girlhood Journal Lockjaw magazine Selcouth Station
Elephants Never celebrate their first birthday and have a wish list of subs they would like to receive on a variety of themes
Will be open December 1st Little Lion Literary Theme Roar
If you would like a personalised list of places to send your writing to, or are new to the process and would like some tips on getting started contact me (link is in the menu) and we can sort something out!
Fifty Strong Fifty poems chosen by teenagers for teenagers
Published by the South Bank Centre, London
Part 11 Signs from the old Times
From Mental Fight
Ben Okri
What will we choose?
Will we allow ourselves to descend
Into universal chaos and darkness?
A world without hope, without wholeness
Without moorings, without light
Without possibility for mental fight,
A world breeding mass murderers
Energy vampires, serial killers
With minds spinning in anomie and amorality
With murder, rape, genocide as normality?
Or will we allow ourselves merely to drift
Into an era of more of the same, without shame,
Without wonder or excitement,
Just the same low-grade entertainment,
An era boring and predictable
‘flat, stale, weary and unprofitable’
In which we drift along
Too bored and too passive to care
About what strange realities rear
Their heads in our days and nights,
Till we awake too late to the death of our rights
Too late to do anything
Too late for thinking
About what we have allowed
To take over our lives
While we cruised along in casual flight
Mildly indifferent to storm or sunlight?
Title: Little Moments of Love
Author: Catana Chetwynd
Genre: Love &Romance / Humour
Rating:
Catana’s comics are based on her relationship with her partner John. In the introduction Catana explains, “wow, we have a weird relationship, if other people saw what we do it would be odd and embarrassing. Have you ever looked at your significant other and thought – Well, that’s what we thought too, before the comics began,”
The situations in the comics range from intimacy (wanting to touch your partner’s butt, borrowing their clothes etc.) to all the comfy parts of being in a long term relationship (choosing to stay in on a Friday night instead of going out, laying around the house in your pants etc.)
I’m sure many people will be able to relate to these comics. My favourite is the comic where he asks if she wants to finish his sandwich and she takes no time in taking the sandwich off of him. (I’m always hoovering up my partner’s leftovers!)
Little Moments of Love is a cute book, unbearably so at times (can there ever be too much cheese?)
It would make a great coffee table book, or if you’re looking for a gift for your significant other.
