Hello everyone,
I’ll be reading at this Open Mic night tomorrow, at The Feminist Library. Have a look at the FB page for more information.
Feminist Library Women’s History Month Open Mic
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The Feminist Summer Library Fête
Something really exciting is happening!
From Saturday 25th- Sunday 26th August there’s going to be fundraising events for The Feminist Library which if you don’t know is an amazing archive collection of literature from the Women’s Liberation Movement. The Library is run entirely run by volunteers and is in serious need of more funding to save it from closure.
The weekend will start off with Girls Get Busy Zine Fest at The Shacklewell Arms (Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EB)
On the Sunday there will be a fête at the library itself (5 Westminster Bridge Rd, SE1 7XW, Near Elephant and Castle and Waterloo) and I will be doing a poetry reading with Rachael Allen:( http://selectedpoems.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/selected-poet-4-rachael-allen-new-work/ http://clinicpresents.com/) which I’m really excited about. We’re also going to do a poetry workshop together which should be interesting.
Other events on Sunday are as follows:
* Booksale
* Agit Prop
* Food and cake stalls
* Tea, coffee and bar
* Kids’ Space with Activities and face-painting
* Film Screenings:
5pm – Persepolis
9pm – Women Without Men
Girls Get Busy Zine
More events and activities TBC
For a more succinct description of the event have a look at the Facebook Page .
http://limboquarterly.com/2012/05/21/qualia-in-brockley/
http://limboquarterly.com/2012/05/21/qualia-in-brockley/
Yay! Here’s my second poem for Limbo.
http://limboquarterly.com/2012/05/14/piropo-on-international-womans-day/
http://limboquarterly.com/2012/05/14/piropo-on-international-womans-day/
Good news everyone!
My poem ’Piropo on International Woman’s Day’ has been published on Limboquarterly.com.
Party in the Library!
I’m reading at a Blackshaw night again, this time it’s a party with a library theme to celebrate their new stage development of Gormenghast: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake.
£7 on the door / £6 advance / £5 group (6+)
Book for discounts: events@blackshawonline.com
For Lily
For Lily
Hello sister friend that
Shouts at me.
You have a lion look.
A mouse!
A mouse! I am next to you,
Because I don’t want to be a lady or care to to understand.
But we laugh
And sing.
And sometimes you say silly things,
And I can roll my eyes then and be the best.
Look,
I like that your care is the
Sharp, sterile
Slap
Of a midwife.
Oh! If I could mother back I would,
But you march around with your nurse’s mane.
And I want…
I want to make you better but
I don’t know what to say for
I am unlearnt in your lover’s discourse;
My smell’s not Agent Provocateur.
And nothing,
Nothing
I could say would stop your mascara-ing
To the scream of the fire alarm.
(Burning dolls, ne-orr, ne-orr)
The same noise you covered my sleeping ears from.
Oh Lily! Am I really any use to you at all?
01:17
01:17
Sorry,
I don’t mean to be abrasive.
It’s just the way I am.
Harsh and unpleasant in manner;
Tending to rub and scrape.
I know. It’s ok.
But I’d rather be
Abreast;
Side by side,
Up to date with.
Abridged.
