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I'm pleased to announce that on Wednesday, November 11th at 7.45pm we shall be launching an anthology to celebrate our 10 year anniversary as a group. Please join us for wine, nibbles and some great poetry. (The Studio, Aberystwyth Arts Centre £7/£5 concession)<br />
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<br />Hilairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698057844619063857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006744357716596012.post-90380791970028793392015-09-04T08:00:00.000-07:002015-09-04T08:23:22.950-07:00Launch of Nigel Humphreys' New Book: The Love Song of Daphnis and Chloe<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm pleased to announce the launch of Nigel Humphreys' new book, </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Love Song of Daphnis and Chloe, based on the erotic romance of the 2nd century AD Greek writer, Longus. At Aberystwyth Arts Centre on Monday, 14th September at 7 pm in the Studio. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14.6182px;">Wine and nibbles will be available and guest poets Marc Perry and Michael Dante will be reading extracts from their Gothic narrative poems - Frankenstein and Island of the Dolls. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Highgate Poets are a group of North London published poets founded in 1977 and currently touring Mid Wales. Their 27th anthology entitled The Space it Might Take is just out. The evening will include an open mic slot for local poets to read with the Highgate Poets. Come half an hour early if you would like a place on the open mic!</span>Hilairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698057844619063857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006744357716596012.post-46826042958141092562015-03-27T10:42:00.001-07:002015-08-03T08:07:16.809-07:00Latest News<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We were treated to a great night of poetry on March 11th at Aberystwyth Art Centre's Chinwag night with guest poet Chris Kinsey and various 'Open Mic' readers, hosted by the Word Distillery. Chris entertained and inspired us all with a selection of poetry from her three books (Kung Fu Lullabies, Cure for a Crooked Smile and Swarf) as well as some new poems. She commented that it was the best open mic she had been to, with good quality poetry and no doggerel!</span><br />
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Hilairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698057844619063857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006744357716596012.post-78263166088913504222014-07-12T04:10:00.001-07:002014-07-12T04:10:58.981-07:00Photos and write-up of the Shelley performance by Mike Smith<br />
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If you'd like to read about the Shelley performance by participant Mike Smith, along with photos, click here to access his website: <a href="http://www.michaeldante.co.uk/1/post/2014/03/the-mask-of-anarchy-the-word-distillery-presents-homage-to-shelly-wednesday-26th-march-2014.html">Michael Dante</a>Hilairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698057844619063857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006744357716596012.post-87055351802702395362014-03-26T04:09:00.000-07:002014-03-26T04:21:22.460-07:00Homage to Shelley <br />
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A reminder that the Homage to Shelley performance is tonight, Wednesday 26th March, at 7.45 pm in the Aberystwyth Arts Centre. You'll hear about Shelley's colourful life and hear some of his best poems concluding with The Mask of Anarchy. Not to be missed!<br />
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It's the last day of the year and I thought I'd just catch up on Word Distillery news before we set sail for 2014.<br />
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The Chinwag open mic event with guest readers has been successfully taken over from<a href="http://www.rhianedwards.co.uk/"> Rhian Edward</a>s, erstwhile poet in residence at the arts centre, by Word Distillery member <a href="http://www.michaeldante.co.uk/">Mike Smith</a>. The last event on 4th December had <a href="http://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/davidsubacchi">David Subacchi</a> and <a href="http://www.kenjoneszen.com/home">Ken Jones</a> as the guest readers. More Chinwags are scheduled for 2014 on January 15th and March 6th - see the sidebar for details. If you have five minutes of material you would like to share or road-test with an audience then come along and sign up with Mike at 7pm before the event starts.<br />
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Thanks to Sarah Smith (big thanks, Sarah!) who has been videoing Word Distillery performances (as well as working behind the scenes on Chinwag events), you can now watch some of the members performing at the <a href="http://youtu.be/R8DSqnaVszo">Lantern Lit in Tywyn</a>. <br />
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All in all it's been a successful year for The Word Distillery with new members, new performances and new venues. In 2014 there will be more Chinwag events throughout the year, a tribute to Shelley on March 26th and more performances (dates yet to be decided) in Aberystwyth and London.<br />
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Finally a big thank you to Aberystwyth Arts Centre which has provided support and space for the poetry community. It has become a place of nurturing and encouragement for local poets and I'm happy to say that poetry is thriving in Aberystwyth. We sincerely hope that the cuts to funding in 2014 won't affect that.<br />
<br />Hilairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698057844619063857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006744357716596012.post-91354758142158280032013-10-11T01:22:00.000-07:002013-10-11T01:23:51.881-07:00Of Moment - book launch<br />
Just a reminder of the launch of Nigel's Humphrey's third book of poetry <i>Of Moment </i>from<i> </i>Arbor Vitae press<i> </i>at the Russkiy Mir bookshop. For details see the sidebar.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">This event will run every 8 weeks at Aberystwyth Art Centre. There will be performances by guest writers as well as an opportunity to take part in the Open Mic hosted by local poet and performer </span><a href="http://michaeldante.co.uk/" style="font-size: 12pt;">Mike Smith</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you have five minutes of material, either prose or poetry, that you'd like to share or road-test with an audience then come along. Make sure you arrive early to sign up with Mike at round 7 pm - Chinwag always proves to be a very popular event.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
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This lively Aber group of poets have appeared at Llanidloes and <br />Hay festivals and round the UK. They all have their own individual, <br />sometimes quirky styles. <br />Members <em>Tina Warren, Eluned Jones, Hilaire Wood, Marc Perry and Mike Smith</em> <br />will be reading</div>
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The Bright Field is a poetry festival being held in Llanidloes on Saturday, 29th June. There’ll be a Pied Piper poetry trail for children, a session on Shakespeare with the Willow Globe theatre - you can bring along your favourite sonnets/speeches to share - and one on R. S. Thomas – again, bring along your favourite poems. I’m doing a reading with fellow poets <a href="http://www.orieldavies.org/en/news/articles/we-are-delighted-announce-appointment-chris-kinsey-oriel-davies%E2%80%99-first-writer-residenc">Chris Kinsey</a> and <a href="http://www.literaturewales.org/writers-of-wales/i/130105/">Stevie Krayer</a>. (Click on the poster to enlarge.)<br />
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There's an Open Mike session in the evening at the Great Oak cafe. Book your ten minute slot with Marg on 01686 413513 or curlew@fsmail.net by the 21st June.<br />
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Tina, Nigel and Eluned carried the flag of The Word Distillery by<br /> taking
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<span style="background-color: white;">We performed to a small but appreciative audience </span>at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre last week. The event drew its theme, Different Drums, from the now famous quotation by Henry David Thoreau, the American philosopher:<br />
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Tina reads <i>Aftermath </i>and <i>Adladd</i></div>
<i><br /></i>Hilairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698057844619063857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006744357716596012.post-45662130578971440832012-08-13T04:45:00.004-07:002012-08-13T04:56:52.837-07:00Tina at Russkiy Mir<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a reminder that Tina will be reading in London this Friday, 17th August:</span><br />
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<span itemprop="description"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In close association with Russkiy Mir, Gruntlers' Theatre is proud to host an evening with the poetess Ms. Tina Warren. Known for her evocations of female consciousness, not to mention Tina's sense of time and place, this reading will introduce the full range of her exploratory work to our London audience." </span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="description"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Venue: Russkiy Mir Bookshop</span></span><br />
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<br />Hilairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698057844619063857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006744357716596012.post-19201021474906933012012-08-05T06:01:00.000-07:002012-08-05T06:01:49.847-07:00Poetic Appearance<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beware ! Beware !<br />
His flashing eyes, his floating hair !<br />
Weave a circle round him thrice,<br />
And close your eyes with holy dread,<br />
For he on honey-dew hath fed,<br />
And drunk the milk of <st1:place w:st="on">Paradise</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These, as everyone knows, are the final lines of Kubla Khan
and perhaps Coleridge’s dramatic idealised description of what a poet might
look like. I was standing with a colleague
in an office window looking out one day onto a side street in Aberystwyth and I
spotted one of my fellow poets from the Word Distillery. “Ah, there’s one of our poets,” says I. To which my colleague replied, “Really, you
wouldn’t know.” Clearly this particular
poet didn’t live up to her idea of what a poet should/ would look like. Hilaire also tells a similar story pertaining
to myself. When she mentioned me as a
poet to a mutual acquaintance – someone I had known for many years but who didn’t
know I wrote poetry – the reply was: “But he just looks like an ordinary
person!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a sad fact to me that we live in an age when
presentation has it almost every time over substance. Talentless people are increasingly becoming
famous for being famous, often because they‘ look’ as though they’ve got
talent, which usually means they’re easy on the eye, the camera loves
them. It’s quite ludicrous of course to
expect that the beauty and vision any human mind is capable of creating and expressing
could possibly be reflected in its physical nest. The mind may have virtual appearance via its
expositions but that’s all it can aspire to.
It exists dimensionless and totally unrelated to physical appearance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coleridge, besides being a fine poet, was a great orator and
literary critique. But on my study wall to the right of my desk I have a large lithograph
of him in his mid fifties and there is no way I can see a wonderfully creative
incisive mind reflected in the face of an overweight, cherub cheeked, squat
little man who is greying faster than his years. He looks jolly, not deep. And you can bet
that the portrait flatters him. As a young man we do see him with long black
locks but there is nothing exceptional about his ‘ordinary’ face. The eyes do not flash – unlikely considering
the amount of laudanum he was daily consuming.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Byron and Shelly of course, with their early nineteenth
century film star looks (if you’ll forgive the anachronism of a twentieth
century concept), I suppose go some way towards wearing a marketable muse on
their sleeves, Rupert Brook comes to mind too.
But they are exceptions and no way the best of poets. Certainly not in Coleridge’s league. Your Larkins, Hopkins, Eliots, Plaths,
Tennysons, Masefields, Duffys, Drydens . . . are all ‘ordinary’ looking people,
less than ordinary in some cases. Elizabeth
Barrett Browning was mousy and plain – from all the pictures I’ve seen of her
she doesn’t look as though she’s got an iambic pentameter in her. George Mackay
Brown and WH Auden were fine poets but ugly men who wouldn’t look out of place
as bookie’s runners or bagmen. Pope was only
four and a half feet tall and Dylan Thomas had a certain cartoon character look
about him – did that slapstick face really write – ‘Do not go gentle into that
good night’! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No one would have looked twice at any of them in the street. There was nothing which might suggest they
had any sort of talent, and certainly no indication of those exceptionally rare
minds within. And yet it appears that
there is an ideal in the public’s perception of what a poet should look like – there
is an ultimate poet. Dare I suggest - moody,
unapproachable, slightly mad, prone to fits of depression or paranoia, bad social
manners, rude due to poor people skills, opinionated - probably left wing, unkempt,
little sartorial sense, heavy drinker . . .
Blimey, I’ve just described Will
Self.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>Hilairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698057844619063857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006744357716596012.post-1447069010612973162012-06-05T06:56:00.000-07:002012-06-05T07:20:11.683-07:00Welcome to our inaugural post! Here you'll find details of the poets who go to make up the Word Distillery, sample poems and details of our forthcoming performances - as well as the latest news.Hilairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698057844619063857noreply@blogger.com0