Each month the GPS team will help sharpen your poetic eye by suggesting themes for your GPS posts. This month’s theme is inspired by Ed Ruscha and the 50-year retrospective of his work that is now on show in the Hayward Gallery.
Ed Ruscha’s paintings explore the range of associations that come with how a [...]
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I sit opposite an ironing board
A black and white ironing board
A female, zebra
Plastic covered ironing board
With hands
Gesturing unmarried hands
Dancing a language in fingers
A syntax of creases.
Joseph Coelho
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Directed and Devised by Jonathon Lloyd
Co-written by Joseph Coelho
Showing until 20th February
www.polkatheatre.com
“An Invite From The Queen”
A musical in a book
Words by Joseph Coelho
Music by Matthew [...]
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A sole shoe
Upturned in rush hour
Was it’s owner running?
Frightened ?
Hurried?
Does she sit now
On her way to upminster
One shoe’d
Avoiding the gaze
Of shoo’d souls
Praying her feet don’t smell
Wondering about rain and broken Bottles.
Joseph Coelho
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Directed and Devised by Jonathon Lloyd
Co-written by Joseph Coelho
Showing until 20th February
www.polkatheatre.com
“An Invite From The Queen”
A musical in a book
Words [...]
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Yesterday we had a very pleasant meeting with Ryan Van Winkle, Reader in Residence at The Scottish Poetry Library, one of our partners. Here is Ryan’s highly entertainting and informative blog. Ryan is a very active poetry workshop leader in the region and wonderfully enthusiastic about GPS. Here are Ryan’s great GPS posts – expect more to [...]
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Alan Bennett has written a new play called “The Habit of Art”. It’s a play about poetry, music, theatre, creativity and inspiration. It’s now on at the National Theatre. I’m sure that’s enough information to induce those who are sensible to immediately procure themselves a ticket.
Hold your horses. The play is sold out until 24 [...]
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“His voice was like a stiletto”
A high heeled stab to my ear
Coated in red sickliness
Clattering against my reason.
Why can’t he speak in kitten heels?
That would whisper a tinkle.
Or better yet discuss in the reassuring patter of workmans boots
Even the shout of steel toe caps
Would be preferable
to the point and stutter
Of a voice always on the [...]
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“I like him he taps he’s good”
He stutters
He toes up the carriages
Citing his wisdom
His mantra of peace and pennies
Tapping out the same tune
With the same half sung lyrics
Moving through the rush hours
Dancing over suits and skirts
Speaking aloud
Speaking loud enough to be heard
But not to be listened to.
Rythms clatter and bleed
Into the chug chug of trains
Embarrased [...]
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“She’s younger than my parents”
Creases have not kissed her eyes
Grey has not touched her scalp
She’s more critical than my teachers
Yet wiser
Eyeing us with a raised eyebrow
Everytime our actions threaten to offend.
She’s more fearful than pain
Waking us in the early hours
Sprinkling regret like seeds.
11:05
piccadilly line
Joseph Coelho
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Directed and Devised by Jonathon Lloyd
Co-written by [...]
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“See you soon with baby clothes and stripy tights”
With caps spurting propellers
With scraped knees and snotty noses
With sweetie necklaces and sticky fingers
I’ll see you when I close my eyes
Reminscing the playground
The swings we thought would swing forever.
The childhood we thought would never end.
22:48
London bridge station
Joseph Coelho
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Directed and Devised by Jonathon Lloyd
Co-written [...]
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Live poetry is what it’s all about. The inner voice that speaks when you read a poem to yourself can be beautifully contemplative. But hearing poetry read out loud, by a poet who is stood right in front of you, in all their glory, in all their vulnerability, and hearing the meaning in the sounds created by the words, as well as the meaning of the words [...]
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