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Re: Main Gate and Information Booth
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 5:40 pm
by Tom
NOTICE -- Tomorrow is the last day of the Festival, so time draws to wrap up your drafts -- post the balance of your Decaths, honor the Crappy Poem Thread with your sacrifices, and definitely
VOTE FOR POET LAUREATE -- LAST CHANCE -- GREAT POEMS -- SHOW YOUR SUPPORT-- BUY ME A BEER
It is not last call, but it will bee.
Cheers.
Re: Main Gate and Information Booth
Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 7:00 pm
by Tom
It is my sad duty to declare The Tangled Branch's second Mid-Summer Poetry Fest closed.
But it is my delight to declare it a wonderful success.
What a great time. We hope you all join us again for the festivities.
And for NaPo, of course, when the time comes round.
Cheers.
Over and out.
T
Re: Main Gate and Information Booth
Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 7:01 pm
by Tom
Re: Main Gate and Information Booth
Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 8:00 pm
by Colm Roe
Thanks again Tracy
Re: Main Gate and Information Booth
Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 9:45 pm
by Tracy Mitchell
Thank you Colm.
Re: Main Gate and Information Booth
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 3:06 am
by Gyppo
Not so active this time around - the heat really does slow down my brain - but I've enjoyed it nonetheless. So-called 'Real Life' does sometimes get in the way as well.
But it encouraged me to to finally buy a new microphone and look into the choices of recording software again. (I'll have a bit more to say about that elsewhere.)
Clifftop Drummer and It's Not Yours have been lurking at the back of my brain for a long time and the Poetry Fest gave me that final push to getting them out of the labyrinth and onto paper. A bit like the Jump Master at parachute school shoving you out through the hatch. "You know the theory, now just get on and bloody do it."
Valhalla Could Be A Problem surprised me a little, which is always pleasant. It's been taped to one of my internal doors for a couple of years now, and as a written piece I was happy with it. But I've been looking for works to be read aloud and along with When I Am An Old Man it cried out to be 'performed', and I discovered that a few words didn't sit right on my tongue and as a spoken piece a few more crept in to replace them, like the 'hair rolling in fluid waves down across their shoulders'. Like live storytelling, I suspect no two performances will ever be exactly the same.
My daughter cracked up the thought of me wanting to see a prospectus for Valhalla. "That's just so you." It was also another line that just added itself 'live'.
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So I've learnt far more this last few days than my limited output would suggest.
I am now a few steps nearer to my first open mic event. In a venue so small and cosy that I probably won't need a microphone. In those long-ago outdoor medieval shows we rarely used amplification. Just a Town Crier's projection.
Thanks to all who slaved away behind the curtain to make it happen, and to everyone who shared the ride.
Gyppo
Re: Main Gate and Information Booth
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 7:05 am
by ajduclos
This was fun - thanks to everyone.
Tracy - I think Marcel's question posed to you about halfway into MSPF was quite legimate: Do you ever sleep ?!?!?
Some awesome writing, some fun writing, and some crappy writing - I was very happy there was a crappy poem thread !!!!!!
And Gyppo - wish I could be at one of your upcoming open mic readings. Very much enjoyed the two read on the Spoken Word thread - great voice and balance to the presentation. And you are right that no two readings will ever be alike, both in words and timbre - I know this from music and songs.
Also, Deb, our Port Laureate - congrats !!! And Colm, Lecram06, Indar, Cheryl12, Dave, et al - Thanks for an enjoyable time.
Aj
Re: Main Gate and Information Booth
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 2:01 pm
by indar
Norstrand woods as I recall is contains the site of the little house in the big woods Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Beautiful place.