ps. How is everyone?? what’s the news re everyones work???

when will we all meet again in the flesh and virtually??

annax

Dear All, these poems where written after an Apples funded workshop for Myplaceoryours with myself and young cornish poet Callum Mitchell. i applaud loudly Apples and Mel for giving them a voice at the festival with Bryon…they took it by storm and made themselves and us proud.

annax

Carefree Work written by Sophie, Zara and Amber (work performed by Becci and Katy), and Merlin, Mike, Zena

Unable to give full names due to status as looked after young people

Group Sorry Poem.

I’m sorry for modding my car, but now it looks cooler than before.

I’m sorry for stealing the strongbow, I wanted to forget myself,

I’m sorry for staying out late but I need my freedom,

I’m sorry I threw my brother in the tree, he’s still there like a huge peach.

I’m sorry about love, but it just felt right,

I’m sorry for writing the letter, I just wanted to tell you how I felt.

I’m sorry.

Dear All,

Good luck with Big Chill, sorry i can’t be there, down in the South West we’ll be flying the flag for Apples and Snakes at the Port Eliot Lit Fest. Emma’s piece is ready for an audience, her different voices will live , and the imagery sing out as it already does on the page. as you can see from her blog, she wants to use the films merge them with the words, and present it all as a visual poem. I’m no help as a mentor re technical’s!, what’s interesting about this project, is that the virtual nature of it as pushed people, all of us, to make the words visual, landscapes for the words..so from looking at what the poets have posted, and from talking to Emma, she is now keen to push that, many of the pieces have become Poetry films/documentaries, which is possibly an unexpected outcome of the project. the first raw films that Emma made , have directly influenced the work, and had an atmosphere of those corridors and closed doors of the hostel.

Dear all, sorry for not having blogged for ages. it’s been such a privilege to see Emma’s piece shape shift and grow, and now, at this stage , these voices have come through, and her gift is that they can be clearly seen in the minds eye.In my head, i know what they look like, what they are wearing, and how they might be feeling in their hearts. there are even characters who are only refered to in” voices off”, who people this piece now, people that danni speaks to, which i think is a stroke of genius. i;m posting it, with a few of my comments. here it is.

Hello Emma, how fabulous to hear you reading it..i’ve been reading it to myself out loud during the last month or so, the words fit in with the rythm of the sea….i already knew the writing was fabulous..how different it sounds not in a Cornish accent (my accent)….which is a whole other aspect to “Your place or mine”, the rythm of the accents and dialect and how it affects the poems..if i knew how to do a video clip on the blog, i would read your poem in my accent..it still travels, and of course we have the sea in common, and with your subject in particular, it’s as relevant here in Cornwall as it is up there in Cumbria, London etc etc…i’d love to hear different verses of the first voice read by the other poets in the different accents, just as an experiment in “The Poetry Travel Agency”. like the other comments, i would love to see films of the other voices, as in my imagination, i always saw them in places, from a bed, a desk, a doorway. Beautiful work.

annamaria

HELLO ALL, POEM COMES AFTER MY COMMENTS…SAVE THE BEST TILL LAST.

Re..APoem for Voices.

Hello Emma,

I’ve tried reading the poem lots of ways to check out the narrative. So, I read all the colours together..ie..all the blue, then all the green, red, magenta to see if they stood on their own as small narratives, which they did. Then tested on my daughter to see if she could tell which were the different voices. (Hard, because just me reading them) Anyway, she COULD tell when the voices changed…which is a very good sign…..!

I think the narrative voices are very clear. It might be the fact that I work with Theatre companies a lot, but I imagined the voices all doing an activity…ie..The green voice, voice of the worker, I saw her looking up from paper work as she talks. It stands out from the other voices, as its very domestic, which is great, gives a good contrast to the other voices, which have a strong inner life full of imagery. The poets voice, with her notebook, writing and crossing out…and the other voices, sitting on a bed…new sheets folded at the end of it, waiting for the new occupant.

I particularly love the magenta voice……beautiful is the word I would use, the protaganists creating homes in each others bodies, fantastic notion, I almost wanted more of that voice…I know you may have put a repeat of the “thursday” verse in by accident at the end, but I like it…if you do keep the repeat in. maybe it should end on

“that will build mansions where others see slums. “

although the pearl and oyster verse is a great ending too.