Monthly Archives: November 2008

Suzanne's poem she read

Suzanne’s prize-winning poem for English teachers and waitresses/waiters everywhere… Keep Them All When you wait tables or teach, you don’t quitone job for another. You keep them both,keep them all because you need the money. You skip a lot of … Continue reading

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Report from 17th November (Work)

A packed night at the Cabarét Pop in Beautiful Belleville. I think what I like best is the insight poets and performers’ stuff gives me into their interior worlds. Worlds richly different to my own. Maybe that’s the first reason … Continue reading

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Cosy Biscuit by Roger McGough

A poem with a slightly skewed perspective on work… Cosy BiscuitWhat I wouldn’t give for a nine to fiveBiscuits in the right hand drawer,teabreaks, and typists to mentally undress. The same faces. Somewhere to hangyour hat and shake your umbrella.Cosy. … Continue reading

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3rd Nov… Edward, Michele & the crowd at the bar

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Report from 3rd November… Furniture?

Photo: Ellen singing about bedbugs. So what was it all about? More than 40 people, 21 poets 2 singers, one pickpocket. The pickpocket went through my jacket pockets but did not steal my biography of Rimbaud. No one got robbed. … Continue reading

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