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   Charlie Jordan
   May 10th, 2009
   

   Creative Partnership stuff sounds great, and so interlinked that on a subliminal level I’m sure it will be working on something for this project too. Definitely agree that often you do need to leave stuff alone for a week, like a spot or coldsore and not pick at it, but let it heal up a bit before you rip off the scab as it were! Charming image not, but you know what I mean:) Someone mentioned a ‘poetry hospital’ folder for poems in need of some surgery, which I thought was great…. and as I’d tried to recycle a line from another poem into one piece i went through with my mentor she asked if it was a poetic ‘orphan’ from another poem trying to find a home! Thought that was very apt, Jo Bell is a wise woman and I’ve learnt a lot:)
   Have fun with filming with Ann, and look forward to seeing the result here soon. You take care.

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   Tony Walsh Reply:
   May 12th, 2009 at 12:14 am

   Hi Charlie

   (We met in Brum once if you recall? At the Big Love slam at MAC – hi!)

   Yeah, it’s good to leave things to percolate. I keep an ideas file where I type in my thoughts most nights and skim down it to see if amything sparks. Rhymes that I like, titles, last lines, images, jokes, maybe a few lines or just notes on a piece that I can “feel” sometimes – y’know?

   I had an idea for a piece once that took maybe 5 years before it turned up as a poem – a piece that talks about a woman yearning to walk down the aisle and, as it goes on, we realise it’s actually the supermarket aisle of baby stuff that she wants to walk down. It struck me when we had kids that there’s a whole aisle there that you’ve otherwise no reason to go down and how much many women/people would love to walk down there but can’t for whatever reason. The image of someone walking down that aisle yearning or in mourning is a powerful one, I think.

   I’ve also got a line hanging around about “like a prophecy waiting for a prophet.” Writing this has reminded me of the famous football headline when minows Caledonian Thistle beat the mighty Celtic. ” Super Cali Go Ballisitic, Celtic Are Atrocious!” Surely someone had that sitting around for a long time, praying for the right result. “Like a headline waiting for a story.”

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2. 
   Charlie Jordan
   May 12th, 2009
   

   Tony, ofcourse I remember you, in fact I was describing your winning piece at that slam to Jo Bell, it was brilliant. We were talking about writing in character/voices of someone else and I loved your piece from the perspective of a teenage mum – it was really touching and believable. I’ll mark out a future hanky for the baby mourning/yearning aisle piece, as I’m sure that’ll make me cry! (Reminds me of one of those 6 word stories – ‘Baby boots for sale, never worn.’ )’
   Hope all is well with you, and loved the footie headline…. esp as my ‘place’ is WBA – we’re hoping for a miraculous Great Escape, but preparing for a plummeting end to the season:(
   If I remember correctly, you’re in or near Manchester? Let me know if you’re performing there soon, as I have to go and see my friend up there and could bring him to his first poetry gig:) take care.

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